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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NSW1776803465)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-73
Company Score Before Incident765 / 1000
Company Score After Incident692 / 1000
Company LinkView NSW Treasury Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERNSW1776803465
Type of Cyber IncidentBreach
ATTACK VECTORInsider Threat
DATA EXPOSEDConfidential commercial and financial documents
INCIDENT DATE19/04/2026
STATUSOngoing (Strike Force Civic)

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of NSW Treasury'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 NSW Treasury 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 NSW Treasury breach identified under incident ID NSW1776803465.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NSW Treasury's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nsw-treasury, the number of followers: 38550, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 900 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 765 and after the incident was 692 with a difference of -73 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 NSW Treasury and their customers.

NSW Government recently reported "NSW Government Data Breach Involving Treasury Documents", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The NSW Government declared a significant cyber incident after internal security monitoring detected the unauthorized transfer of a large volume of confidential commercial and financial documents to an external server.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Confidential commercial and financial documents.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like All allegedly stolen data has been located and secured.

The case underscores how Ongoing (Strike Force Civic).

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 Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating allegedly accessed by a NSW Treasury staff member and Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating allegedly accessed by a NSW Treasury staff member. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating allegedly accessed by a NSW Treasury staff member. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating large volume of confidential commercial and financial documents. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized transfer of...documents to an external server and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating transfer of...documents to an external server. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of external system compromise and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating allegedly accessed by a NSW Treasury staff member. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating all allegedly stolen data has been located and secured. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (60%)
Valid Accounts (90%)
Credential Access
Valid Accounts (90%)
Collection
Data from Local System (90%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (80%)
Exfiltration Over Web Service (70%)
Defense Evasion
Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (50%)
Valid Accounts (80%)
Impact
Data Destruction (30%)

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