Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ALB1788280437)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Albany Med Health System'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 Albany Med Health System 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 Albany Med Health System breach identified under incident ID ALB1788280437.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Albany Med Health System's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/albanymed, the number of followers: 2258, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 236 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 762 and after the incident was 680 with a difference of -82 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 Albany Med Health System and their customers.
On 31 August 2024, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Data Breach Settlement".
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) has agreed to a class action settlement following an August 2024 cybersecurity incident that potentially exposed sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers, financial information, passport numbers, driver’s...
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Social Security numbers, financial information, passport numbers, driver’s license numbers, and other PII, plus an estimated financial loss of $5,080 settlement.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notice of breach and settlement details provided to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled, teams are taking away lessons such as Inadequate cybersecurity measures can lead to significant legal and financial consequences, including class action settlements and reputational damage, and recommending next steps like Implement stronger cybersecurity protocols, regular security audits, and employee training to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Eligible individuals advised to file claims for compensation or credit monitoring by November 16, 2026.
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 (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized network access by third-party attacker and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate cybersecurity measures leading to unauthorized access. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate cybersecurity measures leading to unauthorized access. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, financial information, passport numbers compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potentially exposed sensitive personal data via unauthorized access. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating cybersecurity incident potentially exposed sensitive data and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating third-party attacker gained unauthorized access to its network. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Albany Med Health System Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/albanymed/incident/ALB1788280437
- Albany Med Health System CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/albanymed
- Albany Med Health System Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/alb1788280437-albany-college-of-pharmacy-and-health-sciences-breach-august-2024/
- Albany Med Health System CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/albanymed/history
- Albany Med Health System CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/albany-college-settlement
- 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