Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (PEL1764728246)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Pelican Credit Union'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 Pelican Credit Union 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 Pelican Credit Union breach identified under incident ID PEL1764728246.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Pelican Credit Union's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pelican-credit-union, the number of followers: 3075, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 277 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 686 with a difference of -70 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 Pelican Credit Union and their customers.
Pelican Credit Union (Pelican CU) recently reported "Pelican CU Data Breach via Third-Party Vendor (Marquis Software Solutions)", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Pelican Credit Union (Pelican CU) experienced a data breach where sensitive personal identifiable information may have been compromised.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Marquis Software Solutions network, and exposing Sensitive personal identifiable information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notice posted on Pelican CU website; data breach notification letters mailed to impacted individuals.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Data breach notification letters mailed to impacted individuals; breach notice posted on Pelican CU website.
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 Trusted Relationship (T1199) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including third-Party Vendor Compromise (Marquis Software Solutions), and attack vector such as Third-Party Vendor Compromise. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access and acquisition of sensitive data related to Pelican CU members. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including data exfiltration such as Potential, and sensitive personal information may have been accessed and acquired and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating type_of_data_compromised includes Payment card data, SSN, financial account numbers. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating network outage identified as a data security incident and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal information may have been accessed and acquired. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Pelican Credit Union Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pelican-credit-union/incident/PEL1764728246
- Pelican Credit Union CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pelican-credit-union
- Pelican Credit Union Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/pel1764728246-pelican-credit-union-breach-december-2025/
- Pelican Credit Union CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pelican-credit-union/history
- Pelican Credit Union CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://straussborrelli.com/2025/12/02/pelican-credit-union-data-breach-investigation/
- 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