Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (23A1768948228)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of 23andMe's Breach and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts 23andMe Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the 23andMe breach identified under incident ID 23A1768948228.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of 23andMe's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/23andme, the number of followers: 81337, the industry type: Non-profit Organizations and the number of employees: 559 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 692 and after the incident was 396 with a difference of -296 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on 23andMe and their customers.
23andMe recently reported "23andMe Data Breach Settlements and Legal Fees Ruling", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
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The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive genetic and personal data, with nearly Millions records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing (settlement review).
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating breach exposed sensitive genetic and personal data of millions of users and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no details on attack vector, but genetic testing platform is public-facing. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 23andMe confirmed credential stuffing as the attack method (implied by scale) and Compromise Accounts (T1586) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating millions of users data exposed, suggesting account takeovers. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive genetic and personal data compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating genetic testing platform stores high-value personal data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating millions of records exposed, implying data exfiltration and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no direct evidence, but cloud-based genetic data storage is common. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of destruction, but breach raises privacy concerns and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating genetic data integrity could be compromised post-breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- 23andMe Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/23andme/incident/23A1768948228
- 23andMe CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/23andme
- 23andMe Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/23a1768948228-23andme-breach-june-2023/
- 23andMe CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/23andme/history
- 23andMe CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/23andme-bankruptcy-judge-to-review-data-breach-deals-legal-fees
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf