Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MET1787984684)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Metabase's Vulnerability 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 Metabase 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 Metabase breach identified under incident ID MET1787984684.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Metabase's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metabase, the number of followers: 27525, the industry type: Data Infrastructure and Analytics and the number of employees: 126 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 751 and after the incident was 674 with a difference of -77 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 Metabase and their customers.
On 03 August 2024, Tixel disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Tixel Customers Affected by Data Breach via Third-Party Analytics Provider".
A data breach at Melbourne-based second-hand ticket marketplace Tixel has exposed customers’ email addresses and mobile numbers after an unauthorized party accessed a third-party analytics provider, Metabase.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Metabase (third-party analytics provider), and exposing Email addresses, mobile numbers.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Security update released by Metabase, and stakeholders are being briefed through Email notification to affected users.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Monitor for spam and phishing attempts; avoid sharing passwords or payment details via email/text.
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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating zero-day vulnerability in Metabase’s cloud services exploited on August 3 and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized party accessed a third-party analytics provider, Metabase. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating attack likely leveraged AI-driven tools (Large Language Model) to execute intrusion. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating third-party analytics provider (Metabase) accessed by unauthorized party. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating customers’ email addresses and mobile numbers exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposed customer information via third-party access. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but breach implies potential misuse and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to analytics provider’s data. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Metabase Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/metabase/incident/MET1787984684
- Metabase CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/metabase
- Metabase Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/met1787984684-metabase-vulnerability-august-2026/
- Metabase CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/metabase/history
- Metabase CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://7news.com.au/news/second-hand-ticket-marketplace-tixel-confirms-customer-information-stolen-in-data-breach-c-22794366
- 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