Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EMP1776961729)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Empereon Constar'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 Empereon Constar 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 Empereon Constar breach identified under incident ID EMP1776961729.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Empereon Constar's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empereon-constar, the number of followers: 2417, the industry type: Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting and the number of employees: 872 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 695 with a difference of -61 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 Empereon Constar and their customers.
Constar Financial Services recently reported "Constar Financial Services & Empereon Marketing Data Breach Settlement", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A class-action settlement has been reached following a September 2024 cyberattack targeting Constar Financial Services and Empereon Marketing, exposing sensitive personal data including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, employment details, and financial information of...
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal data including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, employment details, financial information, income, expenses, and asset information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notification letters sent to affected individuals with Claim ID and PIN.
The case underscores how Settlement reached; final approval hearing scheduled for May 22, 2026, and recommending next steps like Affected individuals are advised to place a credit freeze with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion for proactive protection against identity theft, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Phishing warning: Scammers may exploit the settlement. Legitimate communications will only come from the official administrator.
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 (50%), supported by evidence indicating cyberattack targeting Constar Financial Services and Empereon Marketing and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to files containing personal data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exposed Social Security numbers, financial information, and employment details and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high-risk dataset capable of enabling identity theft. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating files containing names, SSNs, addresses, employment, financial info compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating debt collection and call center firms managing consumer accounts. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating breach exposed sensitive personal data of consumers and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no details on data exfiltration method; high-risk dataset exposed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on malware or data destruction; settlement reached and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high risk for identity theft and fraudulent credit applications. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Empereon Constar Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/empereon-constar/incident/EMP1776961729
- Empereon Constar CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/empereon-constar
- Empereon Constar Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/emp1776961729-empereon-marketing-constar-financial-services-breach-september-2024/
- Empereon Constar CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/empereon-constar/history
- Empereon Constar CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2026/04/23/constar-data-breach-settlement-8-days-left-to-claim-up-to-6000/
- 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