Salt Lake City School District Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SLC1765816827)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Salt Lake City School District breach identified under incident ID SLC1765816827.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Salt Lake City School District's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/slcschools, the number of followers: 5057, the industry type: Primary and Secondary Education and the number of employees: 1932 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 777 and after the incident was 701 with a difference of -76 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 Salt Lake City School District and their customers.

Salt Lake City School District recently reported "Salt Lake City School District Vendor Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The Salt Lake City School District warned parents that hackers infiltrated one of its vendors, exposing personal data such as name, date of birth, grade, address, and contact information.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal data (name, date of birth, grade, address, contact information).

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Email notification to parents.

The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Personal data breaches can lead to social engineering attacks, even without financial information. Users should take all breaches seriously and enhance security measures like strong passwords and two-factor authentication, and recommending next steps like Use strong, unique passwords, enable two-factor authentication, and take all breach notifications seriously, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Parents were notified via email about the breach and the type of data exposed.

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 Trusted Relationship (T1199) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating hackers infiltrated one of its vendors and Phishing (T1566) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including growing social engineering risks, and scammers... using stolen details to impersonate trusted figures. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Compromise Accounts (T1586) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hackers infiltrated one of its vendors (implied vendor account compromise). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exposing personal data (name, date of birth, grade, address, contact information). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating data breach... exposing sensitive student information (potential misuse) and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating stolen details... to impersonate trusted figures (social engineering). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.