Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CAS23103223112425)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cast & Crew'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 Cast & Crew 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 Cast & Crew breach identified under incident ID CAS23103223112425.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cast & Crew's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/castcrew, the number of followers: 38952, the industry type: Entertainment Providers and the number of employees: 3420 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 773 and after the incident was 695 with a difference of -78 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 Cast & Crew and their customers.
On 21 November 2025, The TEAM Companies, LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "The TEAM Companies, LLC Data Breach (July 2025)".
Shamis & Gentile P.A.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Name, Address and Date of birth, with nearly 21,936 records at risk.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Isolated affected systems, and stakeholders are being briefed through {'affected_individuals_notified': {'date': '2025-11-21', 'method': 'Written notice', 'offered_services': ['Complimentary credit monitoring', 'Identity protection services (enrollment within 90 days of notice)']}, 'public_disclosure': None}.
The case underscores how Ongoing (as of the notice; Shamis & Gentile P.A. is investigating for class action potential), and recommending next steps like Enroll in complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services within 90 days of notice, Regularly review account statements and credit reports for suspicious activity and Place a fraud alert on credit files with national credit bureaus, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering {'notified_individuals': '21,936 (as of November 21, 2025)', 'recommended_actions': ['Enroll in credit monitoring', 'Monitor financial accounts', 'Place fraud alerts or security freezes', 'Document all communications']}.
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 actors accessed its internal network (no specific vector, but implies credential misuse) and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating breach occurred over 11-day window (July 15–26, 2025) suggesting persistent remote access. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exposure of PII such as names, SSNs, financial/health data from internal systems. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration likely (based on exposure of 21,936 sensitive records) and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating large-scale PII/financial/health data exposure suggests automated collection. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no ransomware confirmed, but high-risk data exposure aligns with impact tactics and Identity Theft (T1659) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating high identity theft risk due to exposed SSNs, financial/health data (21,936 individuals). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: File Deletion (T1070.004) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no logs/evidence of misuse reported; suggests potential log tampering or cleanup. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal network access implies potential credential harvesting (no specifics provided). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cast & Crew Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/castcrew/incident/CAS23103223112425
- Cast & Crew CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/castcrew
- Cast & Crew Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cas23103223112425-the-team-companies-llc-breach-july-2025/
- Cast & Crew CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/castcrew/history
- Cast & Crew CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/the-team-companies-data-breach-2025
- 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