Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MICMIC1787121536)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget's Cyber Attack 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 Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget 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 Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget breach identified under incident ID MICMIC1787121536.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/michigandtmb, the number of followers: 11276, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 1479 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 706 and after the incident was 685 with a difference of -21 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 Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget and their customers.
On 26 July 2024, Community water systems (30+) disclosed Cyberattack issues under the banner "Coordinated Cyberattack on Water Systems Across Multiple States".
Michigan officials are investigating a coordinated cyberattack that disrupted over 30 community water systems in Minnesota and potentially other states on July 26–27.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Over 30 community water systems and MiLogin identity management system.
In response, while recovery efforts such as MiLogin issue resolved on July 27 continue.
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 (60%), with evidence including disrupted over 30 community water systems, and miLogin identity management system experienced a temporary outage and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating miLogin identity management system experienced a temporary outage. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including disrupted operations of over 30 community water systems, and miLogin experienced a temporary outage and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity matching federal descriptions of the incident. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating coordinated cyberattack that disrupted over 30 community water systems. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating coordinated cyberattack across multiple states. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/michigandtmb/incident/MICMIC1787121536
- Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/michigandtmb
- Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/micmic1787121536-milogin-michigan-department-of-environment-great-lakes-and-energy-cyber-attack-august-2026/
- Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/michigandtmb/history
- Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/08/01/potential-cyberattack-water-infrastructure-michigan-report/91137251007/
- 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