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no primary disclosure, evaluator or court filing. event.date_occurred omitted: the source states only an observation window ('CrowdStrike observed the intrusions between May and August 2026'), not a single occurrence date. event.detection_method left unknown: no sentence states who first noticed or by what signal; the story.caught step is null for that reason. event.failure_class left null: the source describes attacker-driven intrusions but no sentence states a specific agent mechanism (injection, credential misuse, exfiltration by the agent) precisely enough to meet a value's test; failure_class_detail is recorded as context only. event.trigger human_misuse is classified from the sentence about presenting intrusions as authorised penetration tests; the source does not use the word misuse. system.developer not written: no sentence names the organisation that trained the model. system.deployment_context not written: no sentence states where the system ran. system.guardrails_present left empty: the source states safeguards existed and were bypassed but names no specific control. impact.direct_loss_usd, records_exposed, reversibility, near_miss, remediation, operations_paused, responsible_party, date_disclosed and all context.regulatory/coverage/incident_evidence fields are not stated. impact.third_parties_affected_count of 15 covers only the Argentine healthcare victims named; the total across all four actors is not stated. context.industry and context.country reflect the largest named victim group, not a single operator. severity major rests on many third parties and a live production compromise; no dollar figure is stated. event.trigger: human_misuse was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. impact.third_parties_affected_count: the source gives 15 only as a bound ('at least'); not stored as an exact count. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. 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