Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MINCLI1781159448)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport'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 Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport 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 Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport breach identified under incident ID MINCLI1781159448.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ministerie-van-vws, the number of followers: 178745, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 2754 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 774 and after the incident was 685 with a difference of -89 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 Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport and their customers.
Clinical Diagnostics recently reported "Dutch Women’s Rights Group Pursues Mass Legal Claim Over Medical Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A new advocacy group, the Women’s Rights Collective, is launching a mass legal claim seeking compensation for women whose sensitive medical data was stolen in a 2023 cyberattack on Clinical Diagnostics, a Dutch laboratory.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive medical data, including highly personal health information of women enrolled in the national cervical cancer screening program, with nearly Hundreds of thousands records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 clinical Diagnostics failed to adequately secure patient data and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating breach exposed records via national cervical cancer screening program. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate security measures to protect patient data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating highly personal health information of women enrolled in screening program. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating records of hundreds of thousands of women exposed in cyberattack and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive medical data stolen in 2023 cyberattack. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating public trust in preventive health programs has declined and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating mass legal claim alleging negligence in protecting sensitive information. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ministerie-van-vws/incident/MINCLI1781159448
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ministerie-van-vws
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mincli1781159448-dutch-ministry-of-health-welfare-and-sport-clinical-diagnostics-breach-january-2025/
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ministerie-van-vws/history
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/11/dutch-women-launch-mass-lawsuit-cervical-cancer-screening-data-breach
- 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