Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NFI1788864149)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NFI'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 NFI 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 NFI breach identified under incident ID NFI1788864149.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NFI's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nfi, the number of followers: 89267, the industry type: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage and the number of employees: 10472 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 770 and after the incident was 706 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 NFI and their customers.
NFI North recently reported "Multiple Healthcare and Service Providers Hit by Data Breaches Affecting Nearly 87,000 Individuals", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Four organizations across the U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Networks and Email systems, and exposing Sensitive personal and health information, with nearly 86,787 records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Rotated credentials and Tightened access controls, and began remediation that includes Additional safeguards and Credit monitoring services, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification letters sent to affected parties.
The case underscores how Completed (NFI North), Ongoing (others), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Credit monitoring services offered 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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to networks and email systems and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity detected on network (NFI North). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating rotated credentials and tightened access controls post-incident and Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized email access (PAMCAH-UA Local 675). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating compromised data included names, SSNs, medical records and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating medical records and health insurance data exposed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating names, SSNs, financial account info, medical records compromised and Email Collection (T1114) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to employee email accounts (PAMCAH-UA). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach affecting 49,540 individuals (NFI North) and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data allegedly sold on dark web (Nephrology Associates). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but high-risk exposure and Data Manipulation (T1565) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high identity theft risk noted in impact assessment. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NFI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nfi/incident/NFI1788864149
- NFI CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nfi
- NFI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nfi1788864149-nfi-north-breach-september-2025/
- NFI CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nfi/history
- NFI CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.hipaajournal.com/nfi-north-nephrology-associates-data-breaches/
- 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