Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (THE1770199665)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of The Phia Group, LLC'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 The Phia Group, LLC 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 The Phia Group, LLC breach identified under incident ID THE1770199665.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of The Phia Group, LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-phia-group-llc, the number of followers: 9876, the industry type: Insurance and the number of employees: 221 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 752 and after the incident was 665 with a difference of -87 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 The Phia Group, LLC and their customers.
On 30 January 2026, The Phia Group, LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Phia Group Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Health and Personal Information of Nearly 25,000 Texas Residents".
Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating a data breach at The Phia Group, LLC, a Massachusetts-based healthcare cost containment and compliance services provider for self-insured health plans and third-party administrators.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Network, and exposing Sensitive health and personal information, with nearly 24,903 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Delayed notification to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification sent to affected individuals on January 30, 2026.
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 confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to Phia Group’s network between July 8 and July 9, 2024 and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating temporarily disrupting operations via network access. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating exposed sensitive data including Social Security numbers, medical information and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to network with high-sensitivity data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, addresses, SSNs, driver’s license numbers, medical info compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating healthcare cost containment provider’s network breached. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 24,903 Texas residents’ data exposed in breach and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access with potential external data transfer. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating temporary disruption of operations and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high risk of identity theft and privacy violations. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: Clear Windows Event Logs (T1070.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating delayed notification until January 30, 2026 and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access undetected for ~24 hours. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- The Phia Group, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-phia-group-llc/incident/THE1770199665
- The Phia Group, LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-phia-group-llc
- The Phia Group, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/the1770199665-the-phia-group-llc-breach-july-2024/
- The Phia Group, LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-phia-group-llc/history
- The Phia Group, LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.classactionlawyers.com/blog/thephiagroup
- 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