Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ORT1769030875)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of OrthoNY'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 OrthoNY 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 OrthoNY breach identified under incident ID ORT1769030875.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of OrthoNY's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orthony, the number of followers: 1746, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 244 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 756 and after the incident was 612 with a difference of -144 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 OrthoNY and their customers.
OrthopedicsNY, LLP (OrthoNY) recently reported "OrthoNY Data Breach Settlement", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $500,000 settlement with OrthopedicsNY, LLP (OrthoNY) following a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of over 650,000 patients and employees.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal and sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and passport details, with nearly 650,000+ (110,000 with sensitive data) records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $500,000 (settlement).
In response, and began remediation that includes Comprehensive information security program, Policies to limit access to sensitive information and Multi-factor authentication for remote network access.
The case underscores how Closed (settlement reached), teams are taking away lessons such as Healthcare providers must implement robust security measures to protect patient data and comply with state and federal regulations, and recommending next steps like Implement comprehensive information security programs, Enforce access controls for sensitive data and Adopt multi-factor authentication for remote access, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Affected individuals offered one year of free credit monitoring.
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 to high confidence (70%), with evidence including failed to adequately protect patient and employee data, and policies to limit access to sensitive information and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting 650,000+ patients and employees. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating failed to adequately protect...Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating remote network access without multi-factor authentication. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating compromised sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 650,000+ patients and employees personal information exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposed personal information of over 650,000 individuals and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating remote network access vulnerabilities. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating failure to adequately protect patient and employee data and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating lack of encryption for collected, stored, and transmitted data. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating failed to implement network monitoring systems to detect anomalous activity and Disabling Security Tools (T1089) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating lack of adequate security measures prior to breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- OrthoNY Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/orthony/incident/ORT1769030875
- OrthoNY CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/orthony
- OrthoNY Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ort1769030875-orthopedicsny-llp-breach-january-2023/
- OrthoNY CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/orthony/history
- OrthoNY CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/new-york-attorney-general-reaches-500-000-settlement-with-orthopedics-practice-over-2023-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