Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MICATL1786962683)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta breach identified under incident ID MICATL1786962683.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlantafed, the number of followers: 40623, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 1574 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 761 and after the incident was 753 with a difference of -8 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 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and their customers.

On 07 August 2024, City of Atlanta disclosed Data Exposure issues under the banner "Microsoft Power Pages Misconfigurations Expose 27 Million Records in Mass Data Leak".

A suspected misconfiguration in Microsoft Power Pages led to the exposure of 27 million records across 13 organizations after the data-extortion group ExfilSquad published 382.64 GB of stolen data via torrent on August 7.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Microsoft Power Pages, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP environments, and exposing 27 million records, with nearly 27 million records at risk.

In response, and began remediation that includes Audit Power Pages deployments, remove Anonymous Users role from tables unless explicitly required, narrowly scope permissions, test API responses from unauthenticated sessions.

The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Cloud data exposure can be automated and mass-harvested once a portal’s API is publicly accessible, even without internal network compromise. Identity and authorization misconfigurations can turn a customer portal into an open data-export interface, exposing organizations to significant privacy and fraud risks, and recommending next steps like Audit Power Pages deployments, remove the Anonymous Users role from tables unless explicitly required for public access. Where anonymous access is necessary, permissions should be narrowly scoped, and API responses should be tested from unauthenticated sessions to prevent unintended data leaks.

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.