Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (HAR3314333112525)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Harvard Alumni Association breach identified under incident ID HAR3314333112525.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Harvard Alumni Association's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-alumni-assoc, the number of followers: 23190, the industry type: Higher Education and the number of employees: 97 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 698 and after the incident was 636 with a difference of -62 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 Harvard Alumni Association and their customers.

On 24 November 2025, Harvard University disclosed Data Breach, Vishing Attack and Ransomware (Cl0p) issues under the banner "Harvard reports vishing breach exposing alumni and donor contact data".

Harvard University revealed that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems suffered a vishing breach, exposing emails, phone numbers, addresses, donation data, and biographical information of alumni, donors, faculty, staff, and students.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Alumni Affairs and Development systems and Small administrative unit (Oracle EBS campaign), and exposing Emails, Phone numbers and Home/business addresses.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Removed attacker’s access and Prevented further unauthorized access, and stakeholders are being briefed through Data breach notifications sent to affected individuals (2025-11-22), Advisories to stay vigilant for suspicious communications and Guidance to verify unusual requests via trusted sources.

The case underscores how Ongoing (with external cybersecurity experts), and recommending next steps like Stay vigilant for suspicious communications (calls, texts, emails), Pause before engaging with unexpected requests for personal data and Verify unusual requests via trusted, independent sources, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notifications sent to affected individuals (2025-11-22).

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.