Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LEV1786055186)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Leviton'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 Leviton 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 Leviton breach identified under incident ID LEV1786055186.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Leviton's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leviton, the number of followers: 67388, the industry type: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing and the number of employees: 2608 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 758 and after the incident was 703 with a difference of -55 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 Leviton and their customers.
On 31 July 2026, Leviton Manufacturing Company disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Leviton Investigates Alleged Data Breach Linked to Dark Project Hacker Group".
Leviton Manufacturing Company is under investigation following reports of a potential data breach allegedly carried out by the hacker group Dark Project.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 1.4 terabytes.
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 potential data breach allegedly carried out by the hacker group Dark Project and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating major producer of electrical wiring and networking solutions with facilities. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal business documents, financial records, and employees personal information. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 1.4 terabytes of sensitive data exfiltrated, including internal documents and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating financial records and employees personal information compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 1.4 terabytes of sensitive data exfiltrated by Dark Project and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating hacker group *Dark Project* exfiltrated approximately 1.4 terabytes. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating potential data breach with significant impact on customers data and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating alleged data breach linked to Dark Project hacker group. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Leviton Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/leviton/incident/LEV1786055186
- Leviton CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/leviton
- Leviton Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/lev1786055186-leviton-manufacturing-company-breach-july-2026/
- Leviton CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/leviton/history
- Leviton CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.classaction.org/data-breach-lawsuits/leviton-august-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