Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (QUE1784645219)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Questo'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 Questo 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 Questo breach identified under incident ID QUE1784645219.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Questo's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/questo, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 3 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 806 and after the incident was 747 with a difference of -59 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 Questo and their customers.
On 09 October 2025, Questo, Inc. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Questo, Inc. Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Personal Information of Hundreds".
Questo, Inc., a Georgia-based market research firm, experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) of affected individuals.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personally identifiable information (PII).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actor accessed files containing personal data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unusual activity within its network detected. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating accessed files containing Social Security numbers, payment card details and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating government-issued IDs, tax and financial account information compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exposed sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating files containing personal data accessed between October 1 and October 9. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actor accessed files containing personal data and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting hundreds of individuals. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating unusual activity within its network detected and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential compensation claims for those impacted by the breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Questo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/questo/incident/QUE1784645219
- Questo CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/questo
- Questo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/que1784645219-questo-inc-breach-october-2025/
- Questo CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/questo/history
- Questo CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/questo-data-breach-2026
- 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