Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MOR1770891010)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of morele.net'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 morele.net 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 morele.net breach identified under incident ID MOR1770891010.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of morele.net's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/morele-net, the number of followers: 5815, the industry type: Internet Marketplace Platforms and the number of employees: 308 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 756 and after the incident was 628 with a difference of -128 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 morele.net and their customers.
Morele.net recently reported "2018 Morele.net Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A 29-year-old Polish man has been charged in connection with a 2018 data breach of Morele.net, a major Polish e-commerce platform specializing in electronics and home appliances.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Morele.net e-commerce platform, and exposing Personal details of 2.5 million customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and MD5crypt-hashed passwords. Highly sensitive data (national ID numbers, financial details, income data) for 35,000 victims, with nearly 2.5 million (35,000 with highly sensitive data) records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of €645,000 GDPR fine (later annulled).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Charges filed (30 January 2026), teams are taking away lessons such as Law enforcement’s growing ability to revisit cold cybercrime cases as digital forensics techniques advance. Importance of detecting unusual network traffic to prevent breaches, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Phishing SMS messages targeting victims.
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%), supported by evidence indicating major Polish e-commerce platform specializing in electronics and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating e-commerce platform...exposed personal details of 2.5 million customers. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating mD5crypt-hashed passwords...exposed and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating national ID numbers, financial details, income data compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal details of 2.5 million customers...exposed and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating e-commerce platform...names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach affecting 2.5 million customers and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating breach was later weaponized by fraudsters. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating failure to detect unusual network traffic and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating shockwaves through Poland’s online retail sector. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating suspect has since admitted responsibility and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating investigation initially stalled before new evidence emerged. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- morele.net Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/morele-net/incident/MOR1770891010
- morele.net CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/morele-net
- morele.net Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mor1770891010-morelenet-breach-november-2018/
- morele.net CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/morele-net/history
- morele.net CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/polish-hacker-charged-seven-years-after-massive-morele-net-data-breach
- 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