Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ING1783571088)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Ingram Content Group's Ransomware 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 Ingram Content Group 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 Ingram Content Group breach identified under incident ID ING1783571088.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Ingram Content Group's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ingram-content-group, the number of followers: 45250, the industry type: Book and Periodical Publishing and the number of employees: 2124 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 761 and after the incident was 618 with a difference of -143 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 Ingram Content Group and their customers.
On 01 July 2026, Ingram Content Group disclosed Data Breach, Ransomware issues under the banner "Ingram Content Group Alleged Data Breach Linked to ShinyHunters Ransomware Group".
On July 1, 2026, reports surfaced of a suspected data breach at Ingram Content Group, a major book printing and publishing company, allegedly carried out by the ransomware group ShinyHunters.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 80,190 records, with nearly 80,190 records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 attack with significant impact with customers data leaks and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters ransomware group allegedly carried out the breach. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process (T1556) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, emails, phone numbers compromised and Brute Force (T1110) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters group linked to data breach. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 80,190 records containing SSNs, emails, phone numbers, names and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data includes current/former employees, authors, publishers. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters claimed data exfiltration after failed ransom and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach linked to dark web monitoring platform. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware group ShinyHunters allegedly involved and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential reputational damage mentioned. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware group ShinyHunters involved in breach and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ingram had not officially confirmed the breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Ingram Content Group Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ingram-content-group/incident/ING1783571088
- Ingram Content Group CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ingram-content-group
- Ingram Content Group Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ing1783571088-ingram-content-group-ransomware-july-2026/
- Ingram Content Group CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ingram-content-group/history
- Ingram Content Group CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.classaction.org/data-breach-lawsuits/ingram-content-group-july-2026
- 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