Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNI1777049294)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Universal Pure'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 Universal Pure 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 Universal Pure breach identified under incident ID UNI1777049294.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Universal Pure's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/universalpure, the number of followers: 5515, the industry type: Food and Beverage Services and the number of employees: 435 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 764 and after the incident was 684 with a difference of -80 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 Universal Pure and their customers.
On 21 April 2026, Universal Pure LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Universal Pure LLC Data Breach Affecting Over 1,100 Individuals".
Universal Pure LLC, North America’s largest high-pressure processing service provider for the food and beverage industry, reported a data breach impacting individuals across multiple states.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal and financial information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account details, medical information, and health insurance data, with nearly 1183 records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Secured network after detecting unauthorized access, and began remediation that includes Review of affected systems and files completed by August 7, 2025, while recovery efforts such as Offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Regulatory filings with attorneys general of Maine, New Hampshire, and Texas; notification letters to affected individuals with enrollment instructions for credit monitoring.
The case underscores how Completed (review finalized on August 7, 2025), teams are taking away lessons such as Prolonged delays in breach detection, investigation, and notification highlight the need for improved data security practices and faster response times, and recommending next steps like Enhance monitoring for unauthorized access, implement stricter data protection measures, and reduce timeframes for breach investigation and notification, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification letters sent to affected individuals with instructions for enrolling in credit monitoring services.
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 to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to its systems between July 10 and August 20, 2024 and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating detected unauthorized access to its systems. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process (T1556) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to systems containing SSNs, financial details and Brute Force (T1110) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no specific attack vector mentioned, but unauthorized access occurred. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating files containing names, SSNs, financial account details exfiltrated and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating medical information and health insurance data compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating files were exfiltrated on multiple occasions and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating no specific exfiltration method mentioned, but data was stolen. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but unauthorized access occurred and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high-risk data (SSNs, financial details) exposed. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal (T1070) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access went undetected for over a month and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating delayed detection and prolonged investigation period. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Universal Pure Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/universalpure/incident/UNI1777049294
- Universal Pure CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/universalpure
- Universal Pure Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/uni1777049294-universal-pure-llc-breach-july-2024/
- Universal Pure CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/universalpure/history
- Universal Pure CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/universal-pure-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