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State AGConfirmed7 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

Automation Personnel Services, Inc. — November 2020 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 16, 2021 Mar 22, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

299,251

First → last filing

Mar 16, 2021 Mar 22, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_ff0c25f2a5e543ba · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Nov 17, 2020, discovered Nov 17, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 119 days later. 299,251 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 6-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Mar 16, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
119days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
78days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
6days

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 clocksMaine ME AG >30d · 41dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueSouth Carolina SC CRA notice dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Nov 17, 2020breach begins
Nov 17, 2020discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 119 days
Mar 16, 2021first filing
Mar 22, 2021most recent filing

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

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. MAR 16ME AGME AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 299,251day 0
  2. MAR 16IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 299,251day 0
  3. MAR 16MA AGMA AG notice32 MA residentsday 0
  4. MAR 16CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  5. MAR 16MT AGMT AG notice4 MT residentsday 0
  6. MAR 17SC AGSC AG notice26,083 SC residents+1d
  7. MAR 22NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 7 NH residents+6d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Nov 17, 2020
ME AG
Discovered
Nov 17, 2020CA AG + MT AG + SC AG +1Feb 3, 2021ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
ME AG + CA AG + MT AG +3
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
ME 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)

299,251

Sum of filed state slices

26,279· 8.8% of stated

91% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US299,251
SC26,083
IN148
MA32
NH7
ME5
MT4

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 filing7 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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

6 days

Cadence

~1 / 1d

vs. multi-state median

1.5× 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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