Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SUC1773190402)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of SUCCESS Magazine'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 SUCCESS Magazine 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 SUCCESS Magazine breach identified under incident ID SUC1773190402.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of SUCCESS Magazine's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/successmagazine, the number of followers: 209620, the industry type: Book and Periodical Publishing and the number of employees: 224 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 757 and after the incident was 673 with a difference of -84 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 SUCCESS Magazine and their customers.
Success Magazine recently reported "Success Magazine Data Breach Exposes Over 141,000 Subscriber Records", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A U.S.-based business publication, Success Magazine, has reportedly suffered a data breach, with an unnamed threat actor claiming to have stolen and leaked a database containing over 141,000 subscriber records.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Website and email systems, and exposing Over 141,000 subscriber records, with nearly Over 141,000 records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating website and email systems were compromised by an unauthorized third party and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unclear whether the two incidents are connected or separate attacks. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to website and email systems. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating database containing over 141,000 subscriber records stolen and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exposed data includes full names, addresses, phone numbers, subscription details. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating threat actor claiming to have stolen and leaked a database and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach with over 141,000 subscriber records exposed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third party compromised systems and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating leaked data could be exploited for fraud or social engineering. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- SUCCESS Magazine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/successmagazine/incident/SUC1773190402
- SUCCESS Magazine CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/successmagazine
- SUCCESS Magazine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/suc1773190402-success-magazine-breach-march-2026/
- SUCCESS Magazine CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/successmagazine/history
- SUCCESS Magazine CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.scworld.com/brief/success-magazine-subscriber-data-reportedly-leaked
- 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