Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MAH1767814456)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Mahitahi Hauora'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 Mahitahi Hauora 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 Mahitahi Hauora breach identified under incident ID MAH1767814456.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Mahitahi Hauora's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mahitahi-hauora, the number of followers: 402, the industry type: Wellness and Fitness Services and the number of employees: 30 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 765 and after the incident was 693 with a difference of -72 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 Mahitahi Hauora and their customers.
Paihia Medical Services recently reported "Manage My Health Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A cyber incident involving the exposure of historical clinical referral records dating from 2017 to 2019.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Manage My Health portal, and exposing Historical clinical referral records (2017-2019).
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like High Court injunction to prevent access/sharing of stolen data, while recovery efforts such as Identifying and contacting affected users; working with a negotiator for ransom continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Limited; clinics advised not to proactively contact patients.
The case underscores how Ongoing (affected users still being identified), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Clinics advised not to proactively contact patients; coordinated national response for Mahitahi Hauora members.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cybersecurity breach at Manage My Health, a New Zealand-based patient portal and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating historical clinical referral records dating from 2017 to 2019 compromised. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Chat Messages (T1552.008) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating hacker Kazu claims to be negotiating a ransom payment and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive health data exposed, including vulnerable patient information. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating historical clinical referral records (2017-2019) compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating manage My Health portal data breach exposing clinical records. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data allegedly sold on dark web by hacker Kazu and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating hacker Telegram account shared breach details before removal. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransom deadline initially set for January 15 and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating clinics report fluctuating or inconsistent details in breach reports. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating manage My Health portal accessed, likely via compromised credentials and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating hacker Telegram posts removed following High Court injunction. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Mahitahi Hauora Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mahitahi-hauora/incident/MAH1767814456
- Mahitahi Hauora CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mahitahi-hauora
- Mahitahi Hauora Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mah1767814456-breach-january-2026/
- Mahitahi Hauora CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mahitahi-hauora/history
- Mahitahi Hauora CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/manage-my-health-cyber-attack-northland-gp-patients-demand-to-know-if-they-are-impacted/P2ZTONA2YFAVDLZJU364WNGACE/
- 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