Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CRE1778870024)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cresset'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 Cresset 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 Cresset breach identified under incident ID CRE1778870024.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cresset's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cresset-capital, the number of followers: 41793, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 496 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 758 and after the incident was 689 with a difference of -69 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 Cresset and their customers.
On 06 April 2026, Cresset Capital Management disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Cresset Capital Management Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Client Information".
Cresset Capital Management, a U.S.-based private wealth management firm, confirmed a data breach after detecting suspicious activity within its network on April 6, 2026.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive client data, including names, contact details, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license and passport numbers, and financial account information.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Contained the threat.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access had compromised sensitive client data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating detecting suspicious activity within its network. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process (T1556) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access had compromised sensitive client data and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, driver’s license and passport numbers compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating names, contact details, dates of birth, SSNs, financial account info compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating private wealth management firm handling high-value personal data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive client data compromised; high identity theft risk and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating third-party cybersecurity experts engaged post-breach. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating data breach with high sensitivity; potential legal violations and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating financial account information compromised. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cresset Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cresset-capital/incident/CRE1778870024
- Cresset CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cresset-capital
- Cresset Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cre1778870024-cresset-capital-management-breach-april-2026/
- Cresset CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cresset-capital/history
- Cresset CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/cresset-capital-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