Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MEM1770558985)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Memorial Blood Centers'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 Memorial Blood Centers 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 Memorial Blood Centers breach identified under incident ID MEM1770558985.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Memorial Blood Centers's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/memorial-blood-centers, the number of followers: 1856, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 213 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 724 and after the incident was 614 with a difference of -110 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 Memorial Blood Centers and their customers.
On 01 January 2025, New York Blood Center disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Data Breach Settlements for New York Blood Center, Memorial Blood Centers, and Capital Health".
Two recent class action settlements are providing financial compensation to individuals impacted by data breaches at healthcare organizations: New York Blood Center and Memorial Blood Centers, and Capital Health.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Social Security numbers, blood types and test results, plus an estimated financial loss of ['$500,000', '$4.5 million'].
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notices sent to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Breach notices sent to affected 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.
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 confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exposed sensitive information, including Social Security numbers and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting healthcare organizations. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, blood types, test results compromised and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials in Registry (T1552.006) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating clinical records, email addresses exposed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, blood types, test results compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating clinical records, email addresses exposed in breach. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach settlements totaling $500,000 and $4.5 million and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive information exposed in January 2025 breach. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating class action settlements for data breaches and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating identity theft risk labeled as High. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Memorial Blood Centers Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/memorial-blood-centers/incident/MEM1770558985
- Memorial Blood Centers CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/memorial-blood-centers
- Memorial Blood Centers Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mem1770558985-memorial-blood-centers-breach-january-2025/
- Memorial Blood Centers CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/memorial-blood-centers/history
- Memorial Blood Centers CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.the-sun.com/money/15907713/americans-2500-check-data-breach-payout-submit-form/
- 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