Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPIIGovernment IDEmploymentMediumContained

APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 25, 2016

Filed

Mar 7, 2016

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC. →

Applied Systems, Inc. notified Montana AG of a phishing incident on Feb 19, 2016, where an employee inadvertently emailed W-2 data (SSN, wages, taxes) to an attacker. Discovered Feb 25, 2016. Affected all US employees receiving 2015 W-2s. No customer data or IT systems compromised. Remediation included security training and credit monitoring offers.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Feb 19, 2016

Begins

Feb 25, 2016

Discovered

Mar 7, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_c5b0fd72ba424cbc2016-03-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_b5683a42d99b2fea2016-03-14 · +7dVerified

Name: APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: applied systems

Name: APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: applied systems
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Feb 25, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 19, 2016
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 7, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIGovernment IDEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: preparing notices to appropriate authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Suspended employee's access to confidential information and all company systems
Began investigating whether any additional information was transmitted
Offering you a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Elite
Changes made: Additional focus on security awareness and training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 7 · first

Montana State AGMar 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Mar 7 (NH), last Mar 14 (MA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/Applied-Systems.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 7, 2016
Raw hash: ccbb6fd5d7cd8bb3e6492ada1084c41e5691a23d64fe1737580096c507998763

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAPPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.

Victim entityAPPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 25, 2016

Stated responseSuspended employee's access to confidential information and all company systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov