Premier Auto Credit Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNIPRE1766527872)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Premier Auto Credit breach identified under incident ID UNIPRE1766527872.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Premier Auto Credit's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/premier-auto-credit, the number of followers: 768, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 49 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 754 and after the incident was 732 with a difference of -22 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 Premier Auto Credit and their customers.

On 23 December 2025, Premier Auto Credit disclosed Ransomware Attack issues under the banner "Premier Auto Credit Data Breach Investigation".

Premier Auto Credit experienced a significant data breach between Jan.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 156 GB.

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Disclosed to California and Massachusetts Attorney General's offices.

The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Sign up for free Cyberscout credit monitoring and identity theft protection services, Monitor financial statements regularly for suspicious activity and Request a fraud alert or credit report from major credit bureaus, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Affected individuals notified and advised to take protective measures.

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.

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 (50%), supported by evidence indicating attack vector and vulnerability exploited not specified and Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain such as true in incident metadata. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack implies malicious execution (implied). Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware often establishes persistence (implied). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware typically escalates privileges (implied). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware often uses obfuscation (implied) and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware may disable security tools (implied). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware often dumps credentials (implied). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Domain Account (T1087.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware conducts discovery (implied). Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware may move laterally (implied). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 156 GB of stolen data posted on dark web. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data posted on dark web (data exfiltration such as Yes) and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware exfiltrates data via C2 (implied). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware Attack with data encryption (implied) and Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware may destroy data (implied). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.