Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CIC1788252938)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the National Credit Information Centre of Vietnam (CIC) breach identified under incident ID CIC1788252938.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of National Credit Information Centre of Vietnam (CIC)'s information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cic-vn, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Financial Services 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 797 and after the incident was 697 with a difference of -100 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 National Credit Information Centre of Vietnam (CIC) and their customers.

National Credit Information Center (CIC) recently reported "Vietnam National Credit Information Center (CIC) Cyber Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

A deliberate cyberattack on Vietnam’s National Credit Information Center (CIC) exposed sensitive financial data, including loan histories, income data, and personal records for millions of borrowers.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting National Credit Information Center (CIC), and exposing Sensitive financial data (loan histories, income data, personal records), with nearly 502M+ enterprise records and 6.5M personal accounts (Q3 2025) records at risk.

In response, and began remediation that includes Sweeping cybersecurity reforms, including Cybersecurity Law No. 116/2025/QH15 and Hanoi’s Municipal Cybersecurity Center.

The case underscores how Ongoing (reforms and policy overhaul in progress), teams are taking away lessons such as Systemic vulnerabilities in national cybersecurity infrastructure; need for risk-based, structurally funded cybersecurity posture; importance of cross-border cooperation and AI-driven threat monitoring, and recommending next steps like Allocate at least 15% of IT budgets to cybersecurity (mandatory for state agencies and public-sector entities), Implement five-tier risk classification system for compliance and Establish municipal and national AI-driven cybersecurity centers, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Foreign tech vendors may need in-country partnerships due to data localization requirements; financial institutions face early cost pressures from 15% spending mandate.

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.