Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DEL1777062709)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Deloitte Government & Public Services'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 Deloitte Government & Public Services 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 Deloitte Government & Public Services breach identified under incident ID DEL1777062709.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Deloitte Government & Public Services's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deloitte-government, the number of followers: 34401, the industry type: Business Consulting and Services and the number of employees: 2 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 704 and after the incident was 503 with a difference of -201 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 Deloitte Government & Public Services and their customers.
State of Rhode Island recently reported "RIBridges Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Rhode Island secured an $18 million settlement with Deloitte following a 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of over 700,000 individuals.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting RIBridges social benefit system, and exposing Personal information of over 700,000 individuals, with nearly 700,000+ records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $18M settlement (including $7M settlement, $5M for unexpected expenses, and $6M in system enhancements/support).
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like System shutdown, and began remediation that includes Settlement with Deloitte for system enhancements and operational support.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating breach...exposed via RIBridges social benefit system and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating system shutdown suggests unauthorized access to critical systems. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of 700,000+ individuals compromised and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high sensitivity of exposed personally identifiable information. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal information...compromised via RIBridges system and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 700,000+ records exposed from social benefit system. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposed 700,000+ individuals personal information and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating system enhancements suggest possible cloud-based data handling. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Service Stop (T1489) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating rIBridges social benefit system was shut down in December 2024 and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted access to essential services for vulnerable populations. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Deloitte Government & Public Services Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deloitte-government/incident/DEL1777062709
- Deloitte Government & Public Services CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deloitte-government
- Deloitte Government & Public Services Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/del1777062709-deloitte-breach-december-2024/
- Deloitte Government & Public Services CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deloitte-government/history
- Deloitte Government & Public Services CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://turnto10.com/news/local/rhode-island-finalizes-multimillion-dollar-settlement-with-deloitte-after-data-breach-ribridges-taxpayers-agreement-cyberattack-april-24-2026
- 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