Laurel Health Centers Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LAU1768842942)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Laurel Health Centers breach identified under incident ID LAU1768842942.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Laurel Health Centers's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laurel-health-centers, the number of followers: 204, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 59 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 763 and after the incident was 699 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 Laurel Health Centers and their customers.

On 30 December 2025, Laurel Health Centers disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Laurel Health Centers Suffers Major Data Breach Exposing Sensitive Patient Information".

On July 14, 2025, Laurel Health Centers detected unusual activity in its email environment.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Email environment, and exposing Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI).

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notifications to affected individuals and regulatory agencies; free credit monitoring and identity protection services offered.

The case underscores how Completed, teams are taking away lessons such as The incident underscores the risks of prolonged unauthorized access in healthcare systems, where sensitive data remains a prime target for cyber threats, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Free credit monitoring and identity protection services offered; dedicated assistance line for concerned individuals.

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.

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 (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized actor had accessed multiple email accounts and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accessed multiple email accounts between July 11 and July 25. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to email accounts suggests credential compromise and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating email environment compromise may involve stored credentials. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Email Account (T1087.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accessed multiple email accounts and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating viewing or exfiltrating sensitive patient data from email accounts. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating accessed multiple email accounts...potentially viewing or exfiltrating sensitive data and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exposed PII and PHI including names, SSNs, medical records. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating files may have been copied in addition to being accessed and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating prolonged unauthorized access suggests data exfiltration. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but unauthorized access occurred and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential viewing or exfiltration of sensitive data. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating threat actor remained undetected for nearly two weeks and Hide Artifacts: Email Hiding Rules (T1564.008) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unusual activity in email environment detected late. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.