Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CAS1789777511)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cascade Coffee, LLC's Ransomware 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 Cascade Coffee, LLC 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 Cascade Coffee, LLC breach identified under incident ID CAS1789777511.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cascade Coffee, LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascade-coffee-inc, the number of followers: 1822, the industry type: Food and Beverage Services and the number of employees: 118 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 762 and after the incident was 630 with a difference of -132 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 Cascade Coffee, LLC and their customers.
On 20 August 2026, Cascade Coffee, LLC disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Cascade Coffee Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Employee Information in Ransomware Attack".
Cascade Coffee, LLC, a specialty coffee manufacturer based in Everett, Washington, suffered a data breach in July 2026, exposing sensitive personal information of its employees.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal information of employees, with nearly 610 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notified impacted individuals by mail on August 24, 2026.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notified impacted individuals by mail on August 24, 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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating detected unusual activity in its network on July 30, 2026 and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating akira ransomware group claimed responsibility. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack attributed to Akira ransomware group. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers and dates of birth compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, Social Security numbers, and full dates of birth exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating akira ransomware group claimed responsibility;data exfiltration such as Yes. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack attributed to Akira ransomware group. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: Clear Windows Event Logs (T1070.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating detected unusual activity in its network on July 30, 2026. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cascade Coffee, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cascade-coffee-inc/incident/CAS1789777511
- Cascade Coffee, LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cascade-coffee-inc
- Cascade Coffee, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cas1789777511-cascade-coffee-llc-ransomware-july-2026/
- Cascade Coffee, LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cascade-coffee-inc/history
- Cascade Coffee, LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/cascade-coffee-data-breach-2026
- 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