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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NKC1764693080)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-62
Company Score Before Incident769 / 1000
Company Score After Incident707 / 1000
Company LinkView NKC Health Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERNKC1764693080
Type of Cyber IncidentBreach
ATTACK VECTORUnauthorized third-party access
DATA EXPOSEDPersonally identifiable information (PII) and...
INCIDENT DATE21/01/2025
STATUSOngoing

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of NKC Health'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 NKC Health 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 NKC Health breach identified under incident ID NKC1764693080.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NKC Health's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nkc-health, the number of followers: 15946, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 2582 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 769 and after the incident was 707 with a difference of -62 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 NKC Health and their customers.

On 22 January 2025, North Kansas City Hospital (NKC Health) disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "North Kansas City Hospital Data Breach via Cerner Systems".

North Kansas City Hospital (NKC Health) announced a significant data breach involving patient information stored by its electronic medical record vendor, Cerner.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Cerner’s electronic medical record systems, and exposing Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI).

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Securing affected systems, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notifying affected individuals.

The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Sign up for free identity theft protection services if offered, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notifying affected individuals about the breach and potential identity theft risks.

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 Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including unauthorized third party gained access to Cerner’s systems, and cerner’s electronic medical record systems affected and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating access to Cerner’s systems implies possible valid account compromise. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to Cerner’s systems may involve stolen credentials or tokens. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third party obtained data including PII and PHI and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating large-scale data breach involving sensitive health records. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of ransomware or encryption, but data was exfiltrated and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential unauthorized access to medical records. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

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