Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DER1784817576)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Dermatology Partners'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 Dermatology Partners 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 Dermatology Partners breach identified under incident ID DER1784817576.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Dermatology Partners's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/derm-partners, the number of followers: 2220, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 200 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 762 and after the incident was 698 with a difference of -64 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 Dermatology Partners and their customers.
On 23 June 2026, Dermatology Partners disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Dermatology Partners Discloses Data Breach Affecting Maryland Patients".
Dermatology Partners, a multi-state dermatology group with over 30 offices across Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, recently reported a data breach at its Catonsville, Maryland, location.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Data system at Catonsville, Maryland office, and exposing Names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details, medical record numbers, treatment histories, diagnosis data, and health insurance details.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notice posted on company’s website and patients notified.
The case underscores how Completed (no evidence of data exfiltration found), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Patients notified and advised to contact Dermatology Partners at 610-871-1816 for further details.
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 individual accessed the office’s data system and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating accessed the office’s data system (potential unpatched vulnerability). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to data system implies credential compromise. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accessed patient records (names, medical record numbers, etc.) and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating viewed patient data (PII/PHI) during breach window. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, dates of birth, addresses, medical records compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accessed treatment histories, diagnosis data, health insurance details. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data being copied or removed (but not ruled out). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating could not confirm which specific records were viewed. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Dermatology Partners Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/derm-partners/incident/DER1784817576
- Dermatology Partners CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/derm-partners
- Dermatology Partners Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/der1784817576-dermatology-partners-breach-february-2026/
- Dermatology Partners CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/derm-partners/history
- Dermatology Partners CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/dermatology-partners-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