Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BAK1766419601)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Baker Donelson'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 Baker Donelson 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 Baker Donelson breach identified under incident ID BAK1766419601.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Baker Donelson's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baker-donelson, the number of followers: 18648, the industry type: Law Practice and the number of employees: 1596 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 757 and after the incident was 698 with a difference of -59 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 Baker Donelson and their customers.
On 19 December 2024, Baker disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Baker Data Breach".
Baker experienced a data breach in which sensitive personal identifiable information and protected health information may have been compromised.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal identifiable information and protected health information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Website breach notice and mailed data breach notification letters.
The case underscores how Completed, and recommending next steps like Providing affected individuals with complimentary credit monitoring services, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Data breach notification letters mailed to impacted individuals on December 19, 2025.
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 (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third party accessed or acquired sensitive data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity in its systems, triggering a network outage. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to sensitive data including SSNs, financial account info. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating compromised information includes names, SSNs, medical records. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third party accessed or acquired sensitive data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating network outage triggered by suspicious activity and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive data may have been compromised. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Baker Donelson Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/baker-donelson/incident/BAK1766419601
- Baker Donelson CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/baker-donelson
- Baker Donelson Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/bak1766419601-breach-december-2024/
- Baker Donelson CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/baker-donelson/history
- Baker Donelson CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://straussborrelli.com/2025/12/22/baker-university-data-breach-investigation/
- 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