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State AGConfirmed9 filings · 9 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 9 filings

CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. — July 2025 breach

Clustered 9 filings across 9 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 1, 2026 → Mar 27, 2026. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

9 filings

States

9

Affected · reported

42,947

First → last filing

Mar 1, 2026 → Mar 27, 2026

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_ff4b4304152047ac · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 9 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Jul 7, 2025–Aug 21, 2025, discovered Jul 7, 2025 — the first regulatory filing landed 237 days later. 42,947 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 26-day schedule across 9 filings beginning Mar 1, 2026. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
237days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
207days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
26days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

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

Regulatory clocksMaine⏱ ME AG >30d · 54dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Jul 7, 2025breach begins
Jul 7, 2025discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 237 days
Mar 1, 2026first filing
Mar 27, 2026most 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 1IL AGIL AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. MAR 24NH AGNH AG notice110 NH residents+23d
  3. MAR 25NE AGNE AG notice128 NE residents+24d
  4. MAR 25CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+24d
  5. MAR 25MA AGMA AG noticeno count stated+24d
  6. MAR 25VT AGVT AG notice96 VT residents+24d
  7. MAR 25IN AGIN AG notice487 IN residents+24d
  8. MAR 25ME AGME AG notice57 ME residents+24d
  9. MAR 27TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 42,947+26d
  10. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jul 7, 2025 – Aug 21, 2025
NH AG
Discovered
Jul 7, 2025NE AGJan 30, 2026IL AG + ME AG + TX AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
IL AG + NH AG + NE AG +5
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
NH 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)

42,947

Sum of filed state slices

2,276· 5.3% of stated

95% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US42,947
TX1,398
IN487
NE128
NH110
VT96
ME57

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 filing9 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

26 days

Cadence

~1 / 3.3d

vs. multi-state median

2.9× slower

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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