Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ATL1774910495)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Atlantic Brain and Spine'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 Atlantic Brain and Spine 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 Atlantic Brain and Spine breach identified under incident ID ATL1774910495.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Atlantic Brain and Spine's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlantic-brain-and-spine, the number of followers: 421, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 34 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 755 and after the incident was 686 with a difference of -69 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 Atlantic Brain and Spine and their customers.
On 27 March 2026, Atlantic Brain and Spine disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Atlantic Brain and Spine Data Breach".
Atlantic Brain and Spine, a neurosurgical practice based in Wilmington, North Carolina, announced a data breach after detecting unusual network activity.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Dedicated phone line, email, and mailing address for affected parties.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Contact information provided for affected parties.
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 sensitive patient data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unusual network activity detected. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, financial account details compromised and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to sensitive patient data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating pII and PHI including names, addresses, treatment records compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating diagnosis details, prescription data, insurance information exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to sensitive patient data and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach involving PII and PHI. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unusual network activity detected and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating protected health information (PHI) may have been compromised. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Atlantic Brain and Spine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/atlantic-brain-and-spine/incident/ATL1774910495
- Atlantic Brain and Spine CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/atlantic-brain-and-spine
- Atlantic Brain and Spine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/atl1774910495-atlantic-brain-and-spine-breach-january-2026/
- Atlantic Brain and Spine CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/atlantic-brain-and-spine/history
- Atlantic Brain and Spine CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/atlantic-brain-and-spine-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