Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BAC1783608842)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of BackChecked'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 BackChecked 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 BackChecked breach identified under incident ID BAC1783608842.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of BackChecked's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backchecked, the number of followers: 170, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 5 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 750 and after the incident was 646 with a difference of -104 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 BackChecked and their customers.
On 26 September 2024, Backchecked LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Backchecked LLC 2024 Data Breach Settlement".
Backchecked LLC has agreed to a $535,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit stemming from a September 2024 cyberattack that exposed sensitive personal data, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers of U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, plus an estimated financial loss of $535,000 (settlement amount).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Settlement notice to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled, teams are taking away lessons such as The breach underscores ongoing risks to personal data security in cyberattacks, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Eligible class members can file claims for compensation or credit monitoring services by August 26, 2026.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cyberattack that exposed sensitive personal data and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating background screening industry may involve trusted third parties. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process (T1556) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers compromised and Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high sensitivity of exposed PII suggests credential harvesting. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, driver’s license numbers exposed and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating background screening company likely stores sensitive PII repositories. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal data exposed in cyberattack (implied exfiltration) and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no details on exfiltration method, but cloud storage is plausible. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but breach implies potential impact and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high identity theft risk suggests possible data tampering. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- BackChecked Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/backchecked/incident/BAC1783608842
- BackChecked CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/backchecked
- BackChecked Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/bac1783608842-backchecked-llc-breach-september-2024/
- BackChecked CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/backchecked/history
- BackChecked CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/backchecked-data-settlement
- 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