Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (IMP1767828836)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Imperial Beach Community Clinic'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 Imperial Beach Community Clinic 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 Imperial Beach Community Clinic breach identified under incident ID IMP1767828836.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Imperial Beach Community Clinic's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imperial-beach-community-clinic, the number of followers: 594, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 55 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 697 and after the incident was 639 with a difference of -58 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 Imperial Beach Community Clinic and their customers.
On 06 January 2026, Imperial Beach Community Clinic disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Imperial Beach Community Clinic Data Breach".
San Diego based Imperial Beach Community Clinic experienced a data breach involving unauthorized access to the clinic’s email environment, with the potential copying of sensitive information.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Email environment, and exposing Sensitive information potentially copied.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Secured systems to prevent further unauthorized access, and began remediation that includes Engaged cybersecurity experts to investigate and identify data exposure, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notified potentially affected individuals; provided guidance on protective steps.
The case underscores how Concluded, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Offered complimentary credit monitoring, credit report, and credit score services for 12 months via Cyberscout; provided guidance on protective steps.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to its email systems and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized individual may have accessed and copied data. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access occurred over a three-month period (Feb 4 - May 2, 2025). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to its email environment and Unsecured Credentials: Email Addresses (T1552.008) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potentially exposing sensitive information via email. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized individual may have accessed and copied data and Data from Information Repositories: Sharepoint (T1213.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating email environment may include shared repositories. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potential copying of data within the clinic’s email environment and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to email systems for data exfiltration. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential copying of data may include manipulation risks. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Imperial Beach Community Clinic Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/imperial-beach-community-clinic/incident/IMP1767828836
- Imperial Beach Community Clinic CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/imperial-beach-community-clinic
- Imperial Beach Community Clinic Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/imp1767828836-breach-may-2025/
- Imperial Beach Community Clinic CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/imperial-beach-community-clinic/history
- Imperial Beach Community Clinic CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/ib-clinic-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