Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MED1772893855)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the MediMap breach identified under incident ID MED1772893855.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of MediMap's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/medi-map, the number of followers: 869, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 22 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 760 and after the incident was 667 with a difference of -93 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 MediMap and their customers.

On 22 February 2024, MediMap disclosed Data Tampering issues under the banner "MediMap Patient Data Tampering Incident".

MediMap, a private portal used by aged-care homes, hospices, disability services, and community health providers to manage prescriptions and medication records, was taken offline after an unauthorized actor tampered with patient data.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting MediMap portal, and exposing Names, birthdates, prescriber details, care locations, resident status.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Portal taken offline.

The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Need for clearer statutory requirements, contractual obligations, and governance practices to treat health data as critical infrastructure. Mandatory controls such as multifactor authentication, encryption, independent audits, and incident response obligations should be enforced for systems handling health data, and recommending next steps like Enforce multifactor authentication for health data systems, Implement encryption for sensitive data and Conduct independent audits.

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.