Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CVSCRI1790260200)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Criteo breach identified under incident ID CVSCRI1790260200.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Criteo's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/criteo, the number of followers: 268079, the industry type: Advertising Services and the number of employees: 3954 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 752 and after the incident was 610 with a difference of -142 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 Criteo and their customers.

CVS Health recently reported "CVS Health & Criteo, AmWell Reach $22.5M+ Settlements Over Unauthorized Health Data Tracking", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Two major class-action lawsuits have resulted in multimillion-dollar settlements over allegations that healthcare and digital advertising companies unlawfully shared users’ sensitive health data with third parties via website tracking tools.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting CVS Health website and mobile app, AmWell LiveHealth Online website and mobile apps, and exposing Personal and protected health information (PHI), personally identifiable medical information, confidential communications, plus an estimated financial loss of $22.5M+ in settlements.

In response, and began remediation that includes Settlement agreements, claims process for affected users, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public disclosure of settlements, legal notices.

The case underscores how Settled, teams are taking away lessons such as Growing scrutiny over healthcare companies’ use of tracking technologies and compliance with privacy laws, and recommending next steps like Review and audit data sharing practices, ensure compliance with privacy regulations, implement stricter controls on third-party tracking tools, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Settlement notices provided to affected users with claims deadlines.

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.