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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Chico's FAS, Inc — May 2023 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filed Oct 2, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

224

First → last filing

Oct 2, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_fda315eb531b44da · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe an insider incident. Intrusion May 22, 2023–Aug 10, 2023, discovered Aug 8, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 55 days later. 224 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PII, Financial account, and PCI. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
55days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
0days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksVermont VT AG >14 bdayFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Incident timeline

May 22, 2023breach begins
Aug 8, 2023discovered
notification delay · 55 days
Oct 2, 2023first filing
watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. OCT 2MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 1 MT residentsday 0
  2. OCT 2IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 224day 0
  3. OCT 2VT AGVT AG noticeno count statedday 0
  4. OCT 2MA AGMA AG notice3 MA residentsday 0
  5. OCT 2NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 2 NH residentsday 0
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
May 22, 2023Aug 10, 2023
MT AG
Discovered
Aug 8, 2023· 78d undetected
MT AG + VT AG + NH AG
Data types
Financial account · PCI · PII
MT AG + VT AG + NH AG +1
Attack vector
Insider
MT AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Count reconciliation

per-state reported counts

Nationwide (stated in a filing)

224

Sum of filed state slices

7· 3.1% of stated

97% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US224
MA3
NH2
MT1
IN1

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing5 members

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

Merge provenance

Method
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Audit
Every link edge records its method, confidence and model + prompt versions (100% is the strongest edge).

Merges are reversible — a wrong link can be detached with its audit trail intact. How merging works.

Filing velocity

Spread

0 days

Cadence

~1 / 0d

vs. multi-state median

20.0× faster

About this clustering

DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. This page states only what the linked filings agree on; each filing's own account stays on its own record, linked from the timeline below.

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