Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ECH1120911112625)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Echo'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 Echo 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 Echo breach identified under incident ID ECH1120911112625.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Echo's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/echo-managed-services, the number of followers: 5305, the industry type: Outsourcing/Offshoring and the number of employees: 282 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 756 and after the incident was 698 with a difference of -58 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 Echo and their customers.
On 21 November 2025, Echo disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Echo Data Breach - July 2025".
Echo reported a data breach to the Attorney General of Vermont, where sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) in its care may have been compromised.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Certain computer systems within its network, and exposing Name, Social Security number and Driver’s license or other government-issued ID card numbers (e.g., individual taxpayer ID number, passport number, military ID card number).
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification letters mailed to affected individuals (November 21, 2025) with complimentary credit monitoring services offered.
The case underscores how Ongoing (as of November 24, 2025, exact PII types not yet disclosed), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification letters mailed to affected individuals (November 21, 2025) with details on impacted data types and credit monitoring services.
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 third parties potentially accessed... sensitive PII between July 25–28, 2025 (implies abuse of existing credentials/accounts) and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating certain computer systems within its network accessed; no patch/vulnerability details disclosed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating pII may include SSN, financial account details, biometric/genetic data, health records accessed 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 may have been accessed and *acquired* by unauthorized third party (implies exfiltration occurred). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage Object (T1598) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating certain computer systems within its network may include cloud-hosted PII repositories and Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (10%), supported by evidence indicating no explicit destruction mentioned, but high-sensitivity data (biometric/health) exposure suggests potential follow-on impact. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no direct evidence, but PII breach *may* correlate with credential material stored alongside sensitive data. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Echo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/echo-managed-services/incident/ECH1120911112625
- Echo CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/echo-managed-services
- Echo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ech1120911112625-echo-breach-july-2025/
- Echo CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/echo-managed-services/history
- Echo CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://straussborrelli.com/2025/11/24/the-echo-design-group-data-breach-investigation/
- 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