Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (HOL1765817121)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Holiday Stationstores'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 Holiday Stationstores 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 Holiday Stationstores breach identified under incident ID HOL1765817121.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Holiday Stationstores's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/holiday-companies, the number of followers: 5282, the industry type: Retail and the number of employees: 1250 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 774 and after the incident was 657 with a difference of -117 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 Holiday Stationstores and their customers.
On 18 November 2024, Erickson Cos. LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Erickson Cos. Data Breach Class Action Settlement".
Individuals who received a mailed notice stating a data breach at Erickson Cos.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personally identifiable information, with nearly 11,820 records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $225,000 (settlement fund).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Mailed notices to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Mailed notices to affected individuals.
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 data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating negligent data security practices implied potential vulnerabilities. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to PII suggests possible credential compromise and Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating negligent data security practices may have exposed credentials. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personally identifiable information of 11,820 individuals compromised and Exfiltration Over Physical Medium (T1052) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no direct evidence, but PII exposure implies data removal. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Disabling Security Tools (T1089) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating negligent data security practices may have weakened defenses and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating implied by unauthorized access and lack of detection details. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Holiday Stationstores Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/holiday-companies/incident/HOL1765817121
- Holiday Stationstores CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/holiday-companies
- Holiday Stationstores Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/hol1765817121-holiday-stationstores-breach-november-2024/
- Holiday Stationstores CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/holiday-companies/history
- Holiday Stationstores CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/erickson-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