Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ASHLPL1768395244)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of LPL Financial'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 LPL Financial 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 LPL Financial breach identified under incident ID ASHLPL1768395244.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of LPL Financial's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lpl-financial, the number of followers: 159520, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 14318 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 664 and after the incident was 603 with a difference of -61 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 LPL Financial and their customers.
LPL Financial recently reported "LPL Financial, Ameriprise Financial, and Ashton Thomas Private Wealth Data Breaches", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Financial advisors at multiple firms were targeted by cyber criminals, leading to data breaches involving unauthorized access, phishing scams, and potential exposure of personal information.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Advisor Online Accounts (LPL) and Advisor Email Accounts (Ameriprise, Ashton Thomas), and exposing Personal Information, Client Data, Children's PII (Ashton Thomas), with nearly 53 (LPL), 598 (Ameriprise), 1,644 (Ashton Thomas) records at risk.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Prompt containment (LPL, Ameriprise), Immediate investigation (Ameriprise), and began remediation that includes Bolstered safeguards, Free credit monitoring for affected clients, and stakeholders are being briefed through Client notification letters, Regulatory filings (Maine AG).
The case underscores how Ongoing (LPL), Contained (Ameriprise, Ashton Thomas), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification letters sent to affected clients (All Firms).
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating phishing email tricked an advisor into exposing client data (Ameriprise), Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating foreign threat actors compromised advisor accounts (LPL), and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unusual activity in firm email accounts (Ashton Thomas). Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating phishing email tricked an advisor into exposing client data (Ameriprise) and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized transactions (LPL pump-and-dump scheme). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating compromised advisor accounts (LPL, Ashton Thomas) and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to email accounts (Ashton Thomas). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exposed sensitive data such as SSNs, DOBs, addresses (Ashton Thomas) and Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unusual activity in firm email accounts (Ashton Thomas). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breaches affecting 53 (LPL), 598 (Ameriprise), 1,644 (Ashton Thomas). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data misuse (Ameriprise) and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hack pump-and-dump scheme (LPL). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating compromised advisor accounts used for unauthorized access (LPL, Ashton Thomas) and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no ongoing issues reported post-containment (LPL). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- LPL Financial Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lpl-financial/incident/ASHLPL1768395244
- LPL Financial CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lpl-financial
- LPL Financial Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ashlpl1768395244-ashton-thomas-private-wealth-lpl-financial-breach-january-2026/
- LPL Financial CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lpl-financial/history
- LPL Financial CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.advisorhub.com/lpl-ameriprise-ashton-thomas-report-data-breaches-to-maine-regulators/
- 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