Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (HEX1775148772)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of HEXPOL Compounding'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 HEXPOL Compounding 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 HEXPOL Compounding breach identified under incident ID HEX1775148772.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of HEXPOL Compounding's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hexpol-compounding, the number of followers: 15783, the industry type: Chemical Manufacturing and the number of employees: 927 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 765 and after the incident was 692 with a difference of -73 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 HEXPOL Compounding and their customers.
On 01 December 2024, Hexpol Compounding Americas LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Hexpol Data Breach Settlement Offers Compensation to Affected U.S. Employees".
Hexpol Compounding Americas LLC and Hexpol Holding Inc.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Names, Social Security numbers, with nearly 1723 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Settlement notice to affected employees.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Compensation claims notice to affected employees.
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 targeted cyberattack on the company’s systems and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating alleged failure to adequately protect employee data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials In Files (T1552.005) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating compromised sensitive data, including names and Social Security numbers and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposed personal information of 1,723 employees. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating compromised sensitive data, including names and Social Security numbers and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting 1,723 current and former U.S. employees. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targeted cyberattack on the company’s systems and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high identity theft risk for affected employees. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating alleged failure to protect employee data and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating class action settlement for data breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- HEXPOL Compounding Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/hexpol-compounding/incident/HEX1775148772
- HEXPOL Compounding CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/hexpol-compounding
- HEXPOL Compounding Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/hex1775148772-hexpol-compounding-americas-llc-hexpol-holding-inc-breach-april-2026/
- HEXPOL Compounding CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/hexpol-compounding/history
- HEXPOL Compounding CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/hexpol-data-settlement
- 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