Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (REG1766001597)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Regional Obstetric Consultants'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 Regional Obstetric Consultants 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 Regional Obstetric Consultants breach identified under incident ID REG1766001597.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Regional Obstetric Consultants's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/regional-obstetric-consultants, the number of followers: 34, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 20 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 766 and after the incident was 686 with a difference of -80 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 Regional Obstetric Consultants and their customers.
On 06 May 2024, Regional Obstetrical Consultants P.C. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Regional Obstetrical Consultants Data Breach Settlement".
A class action lawsuit alleging a data incident led to unauthorized access to sensitive personal and medical information at Regional Obstetrical Consultants P.C.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, insurance ID numbers, diagnoses, medical history, procedures, and other personally identifiable information or protected health information, plus an estimated financial loss of Up to $7,500 per affected individual for documented losses.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Mail notices to affected individuals, online claim submission, and settlement administrator contact.
The case underscores how Settled (class action resolution), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Mail notices sent to affected individuals with claim instructions.
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%), supported by evidence indicating alleged failure to adequately secure sensitive data and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach at Regional Obstetrical Consultants P.C.. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating potentially exposed sensitive personal and medical information and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data compromised such as PII, PHI, medical record numbers, insurance IDs. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating alleged failure to adequately protect sensitive information. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to sensitive personal and medical information and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of ransomware, but data exposure implies impact. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Regional Obstetric Consultants Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/regional-obstetric-consultants/incident/REG1766001597
- Regional Obstetric Consultants CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/regional-obstetric-consultants
- Regional Obstetric Consultants Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/reg1766001597-breach-may-2024/
- Regional Obstetric Consultants CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/regional-obstetric-consultants/history
- Regional Obstetric Consultants CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/roc-data-settlement
- 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