Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (815 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Clear inverted-pyramid: settlement lead, the $150M-claim/$18M-cash distinction, the California damages block, breach mechanics, and payouts. Neutral, precise, appropriately hedged in the 'What we don't know' close.

All 7 source snapshots read from disk and personally verified (manifest.json, source-0 through source-6, all HTTP 200). source-0 (Colorado AG/coag.gov): confirms 'coalition of 42 attorneys general', 6.9M customers, $18M immediate recovery, October 2023 breach disclosure, sale to TTAM Research Institute (nonprofit formed by founder/former CEO Anne Wojcicki), the security terms list (enhanced data security, risk analysis, advisory board, comprehensive privacy laws, deletion rights), the MyHeritage credential-sharing link, and the Weiser quote verbatim. source-1 (Delaware DOJ/news.delaware.gov): confirms '$150 million in allowed claims', recovery 'limited to $18 million' due to finite estate funds and numerous other claims, October 2023 / 6.9M, the Feb 17 2026 claims deadline, and the Jennings quote verbatim. source-2 (Insurance Journal, July 13): confirms July 10 ruling, Judge Brian Walsh in St. Louis, preclusion of monetary relief against Chrome Holding Co and an affiliate with non-monetary remedies still open, the 14-day window, the May 28 San Francisco Superior Court suit, Bonta's ignoring-warnings/downplaying accusation, and the Walsh quote verbatim. source-3 (Paul Weiss): confirms the 'win for debtors' framing and the client-note quote verbatim. source-4 (Gizmodo): confirms '$46.75 million' and 'almost 7 million users, roughly half of all the company's customers' verbatim. source-5 (Insurance Journal, July 7): confirms July 7 approval of the $46.75M settlement 'fair and equitable' and TTAM's $305M asset purchase. source-6 (Security.org): confirms April 29 2023 start, ~5 months, credential stuffing, no 2FA, ~14,000 accounts (<0.1% of ~14M customers), ~5.5M additional users via DNA Relatives, and the Ashkenazi Jewish / Chinese-descent ethnic lists.

Every specific traces to a cited source and every figure is correctly distinguished — no figure-swap or off-by-one: $18M = states' immediate cash recovery (Colorado, Delaware); $150M = states' allowed claims (Delaware); $46.75M = consumer class-action settlement (Insurance Journal July 7, Gizmodo, both AG releases); $305M = TTAM asset purchase (Insurance Journal July 7). '42 attorneys general' matches Colorado's explicit 'coalition of 42 attorneys general' framing and the headline. '6.9 million' affected is consistent across Colorado, Delaware, both Insurance Journal pieces, and Security.org's breach table; Gizmodo's 'almost 7 million' is correctly attributed to Gizmodo. All four direct quotes (Weiser, Jennings, Walsh, Paul Weiss) are verbatim. No hallucinations detected.

High-quality, fully-sourced News submission. All integrity checks pass (hash valid, signature valid), every claim maps to a cited source read personally from the committed snapshots, every quote is verbatim, and the source array is bidirectionally intact. The sole automated warning concerns allowlist membership for clearly reputable government and trade sources — not a content defect and nothing a corrections record could honestly document. Verdict: APPROVE.