Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (COACHE1782138294)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cherry Health'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 Cherry Health 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 Cherry Health breach identified under incident ID COACHE1782138294.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cherry Health's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cherryhealthmi, the number of followers: 3511, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 491 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 764 and after the incident was 681 with a difference of -83 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 Cherry Health and their customers.
Blue Fish Pediatrics recently reported "Multiple Healthcare Data Breaches Expose Sensitive Patient Information Across U.S.", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A series of cyberattacks targeting healthcare providers in 2025 and 2026 has compromised the personal and medical data of tens of thousands of patients nationwide.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive patient data, including personal and medical information, with nearly ['41,485 (Blue Fish Pediatrics)', '2,886 (Coastal Carolina Centers of Urology and Surgery)', '2,856 (Regence)'] records at risk.
In response, and began remediation that includes Additional security measures (Cherry Health), credit monitoring (Blue Fish Pediatrics), and stakeholders are being briefed through Patient notifications.
The case underscores how Ongoing (Cherry Health), Under Review (Regence), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Patient notifications sent (Blue Fish Pediatrics, Coastal Carolina Centers of Urology and Surgery, Regence).
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 (80%), with evidence including unauthorized access to its IT systems, and unauthorized actors accessed digital accounts (Regence) and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating detected unauthorized access to its IT systems (Blue Fish Pediatrics). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Web Browsers (T1552.006) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actors accessed digital accounts (Regence) and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including files containing sensitive patient data accessed, and medical records, diagnoses, lab results compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating health records, insurance details, treatment details accessed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating qilin ransomware group posted stolen data on dark web leak site and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach affecting 41,485 Texas residents (Blue Fish Pediatrics). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack (Qilin ransomware group) and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating threat actors accessed files containing sensitive patient data. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to digital accounts (Regence) and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious network activity detected (Cherry Health). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cherry Health Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cherryhealthmi/incident/COACHE1782138294
- Cherry Health CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cherryhealthmi
- Cherry Health Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/coache1782138294-cherry-health-coastal-carolina-centers-of-urology-and-surgery-breach-july-2025/
- Cherry Health CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cherryhealthmi/history
- Cherry Health CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.hipaajournal.com/blue-fish-pediatrics-data-breach/
- 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