Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (THE1769095627)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of The Progressive Group'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 The Progressive Group 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 The Progressive Group breach identified under incident ID THE1769095627.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of The Progressive Group's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-progressive-group, the number of followers: 370, the industry type: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing and the number of employees: 79 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 755 and after the incident was 694 with a difference of -61 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 The Progressive Group and their customers.
On 29 December 2023, Progressive Auto Group disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Northeast Ohio Car Dealership Data Breach Exposes Customer and Employee Information".
A data breach at Progressive Auto Group, a car dealership in Massillon, Ohio, has potentially exposed the personal information of customers and employees, including sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and financial account information.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Company network, and exposing Personal and financial information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification letters to affected individuals.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Such breaches are increasingly common and often preventable with basic security measures, and recommending next steps like Implement basic security measures to prevent unauthorized access, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Monitor accounts for suspicious activity and report fraud to the FTC.
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 the company’s network and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating basic security measures could have prevented the breach. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actor accessed the company’s network and Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating lack of basic security measures mentioned. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating files containing sensitive data...exfiltrated and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account info. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actor...exfiltrated files containing sensitive data and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach detected on December 18. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on extent of breach and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential identity theft risk for affected individuals. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- The Progressive Group Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-progressive-group/incident/THE1769095627
- The Progressive Group CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-progressive-group
- The Progressive Group Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/the1769095627-progressive-auto-group-breach-december-2025/
- The Progressive Group CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-progressive-group/history
- The Progressive Group CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/social-security-numbers-may-have-been-exposed-in-data-breach-connected-to-local-car-dealership
- 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