West Ada School District Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (WES2502625111125)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the West Ada School District breach identified under incident ID WES2502625111125.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of West Ada School District's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/westadaschooldistrict, the number of followers: 2885, the industry type: Education Administration Programs and the number of employees: 1397 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 695 and after the incident was 627 with a difference of -68 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 West Ada School District and their customers.

West Ada School District (WASD) recently reported "PowerSchool Data Breach Affecting West Ada School District (WASD)", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The West Ada School District (WASD) is part of a class action lawsuit due to a PowerSchool data breach in 2025.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal information of current/former students and teachers.

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notice of Data Breach issued by PowerSchool.

The case underscores how Ongoing (class action lawsuit in progress), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notice of Data Breach issued; board of trustees advised to join class action lawsuit.

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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating cybersecurity incident targeting PowerSchool, a widely used education management platform. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating compromised data likely included sensitive details such as names, contact info, academic records. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol: Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol (T1048.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration such as Likely (data breach confirmed). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (10%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware such as null (excluded due to lack of evidence, but included for low-confidence correlation) and Identity Theft (T1659) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating identity theft risk such as High (personal information exposed). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.