Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GLA1770681334)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Gladney Center for Adoption'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 Gladney Center for Adoption 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 Gladney Center for Adoption breach identified under incident ID GLA1770681334.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Gladney Center for Adoption's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gladneycenter, the number of followers: 4209, the industry type: Non-profit Organizations and the number of employees: 173 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 763 and after the incident was 697 with a difference of -66 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 Gladney Center for Adoption and their customers.
On 03 February 2026, Gladney Center disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Gladney Center Dual Data Breaches".
Gladney Center disclosed a pair of data breaches that compromised sensitive personal and protected health information (PHI) of individuals under its care.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Email accounts, Network segment, and exposing Sensitive personal and protected health information (PHI).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification via mail, Complimentary credit monitoring services.
The case underscores how Under review, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification via mail detailing compromised data and offering complimentary 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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating targeted a section of the organization’s network, exposing data stored in email accounts and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating third-party system vulnerability affecting the same network segment. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Cracking (T1110.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating email addresses and passwords, Usernames and passwords compromised and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data stored in email accounts to unauthorized access. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exposing data stored in email accounts to unauthorized access and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating full names, SSNs, DOBs, medical information compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal and protected health information (PHI) compromised and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to email accounts, third-party system vulnerability. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating breaches potentially exposed a range of sensitive data and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on extent of unauthorized access. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Gladney Center for Adoption Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gladneycenter/incident/GLA1770681334
- Gladney Center for Adoption CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gladneycenter
- Gladney Center for Adoption Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/gla1770681334-gladney-center-breach-february-2025/
- Gladney Center for Adoption CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gladneycenter/history
- Gladney Center for Adoption CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://straussborrelli.com/2026/02/09/the-gladney-center-of-adoption-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