Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CIT1772127515)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the City of Rome, New York breach identified under incident ID CIT1772127515.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of City of Rome, New York's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-of-rome-new-york, the number of followers: 261, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 70 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 682 with a difference of -80 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 City of Rome, New York and their customers.

On 11 February 2024, Central Paving disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Rome, NY, Data Breach Exposing Contractor Personal Information".

A data breach involving sensitive personal information for 36 employees of Central Paving, a city contractor, was discovered when payroll documents containing the data were found in the Rome Common Council’s agenda packet.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal information of 36 employees, with nearly 36 records at risk.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Documents removed from the city’s website within two hours, and began remediation that includes Request to Google to scrub remaining traces of the documents from the internet, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification to affected employees and consultation with authorities.

The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Need for improved municipal data security and transparency in handling contractor information, and recommending next steps like Implement stricter controls for handling sensitive documents, enhance training for city staff on data protection, and consider cyber insurance for data breaches, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Affected employees notified.

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.