Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INTALL1786048474)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Allegheny Health Network'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 Allegheny Health Network 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 Allegheny Health Network breach identified under incident ID INTALL1786048474.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Allegheny Health Network's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allegheny-health-network, the number of followers: 76464, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 11772 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 780 and after the incident was 704 with a difference of -76 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 Allegheny Health Network and their customers.
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) recently reported "Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A federal court ruled that Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and its IT vendor IntraSystems LLC must defend against multiple claims in a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 294,000 patients.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal information of patients, with nearly 294,000 records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating iT vendor IntraSystems LLC failed to adequately protect patient data and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating negligence and failure to protect patient data implies possible account misuse. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating failure to adequately protect patient data suggests weak credential security. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of 294,000 patients was exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposed personal information of approximately 294,000 patients. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating negligence and failure to protect patient data may imply data integrity issues and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high identity theft risk for 294,000 patients suggests potential data tampering. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Allegheny Health Network Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/allegheny-health-network/incident/INTALL1786048474
- Allegheny Health Network CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/allegheny-health-network
- Allegheny Health Network Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/intall1786048474-intrasystems-llc-allegheny-health-network-breach-january-2024/
- Allegheny Health Network CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/allegheny-health-network/history
- Allegheny Health Network CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/pittsburgh-health-system-patients-advance-data-breach-lawsuit
- 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