AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

APPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 6, 2017

Filed

Mar 14, 2017

To disclose

8 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for APPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP →

Geokinetics, Inc. notified Montana residents that W-2 forms containing names, addresses, SSNs, and earnings were mistakenly sent outside the organization on January 25, 2017. The company discovered the error on March 6, 2017, notified the IRS, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 40 days

discovery → filing · 8 days

Jan 25, 2017

Begins

Mar 6, 2017

Discovered

Mar 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: APPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP
norm: applied geokinetics

Name: APPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP
norm: applied geokinetics
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 6, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 25, 2017
Undetected for: 40 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 13, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified the IRS and state taxing authorities

During the incident: Began an investigation
Notified the IRS and state taxing authorities
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Changes made: Aggressively analyzing where process changes are needed
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

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

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Geokinetics.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 14, 2017
Raw hash: 4df4b3b8bc6e579b36943ca4217c1cb39f632955b4618d4844e11041235ec122

Reporting entityAPPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP

Victim entityAPPLIED GEOKINETICS, LP

Incidentdiscovered Mar 6, 2017

Stated responseBegan an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov