Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ANN1775867299)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Anne Arundel Dermatology'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 Anne Arundel Dermatology 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 Anne Arundel Dermatology breach identified under incident ID ANN1775867299.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Anne Arundel Dermatology's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/annearundeldermatology, the number of followers: 5469, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 576 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 653 and after the incident was 512 with a difference of -141 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 Anne Arundel Dermatology and their customers.
On 13 May 2025, Anne Arundel Dermatology P.A. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Anne Arundel Dermatology Data Breach Settlement".
Anne Arundel Dermatology P.A.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal and health information of 1.9 million individuals, with nearly 1,900,000 records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $2,400,000 (settlement amount).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Settlement notice and claim process.
The case underscores how Settled, teams are taking away lessons such as Healthcare organizations must implement adequate security measures to protect sensitive patient data and avoid financial and reputational consequences, and recommending next steps like Enhance cybersecurity protocols, conduct regular security audits, and ensure compliance with healthcare data protection regulations, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Settlement notice with compensation options for affected individuals.
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 third parties accessed the company’s systems and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate security measures (vulnerability exploited). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating failure to implement adequate security measures. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal and health information of 1.9M individuals compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third parties accessed systems for ~3 months and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high-volume data breach (1.9M records). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating negative brand reputation impact due to breach and Financial Theft (T1657) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating $2.4M settlement for data breach class action. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Anne Arundel Dermatology Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/annearundeldermatology/incident/ANN1775867299
- Anne Arundel Dermatology CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/annearundeldermatology
- Anne Arundel Dermatology Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ann1775867299-anne-arundel-dermatology-pa-breach-april-2026/
- Anne Arundel Dermatology CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/annearundeldermatology/history
- Anne Arundel Dermatology CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/anne-arundel-privacy-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