VNA An Affiliate of Midland Care Connection Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (VNA1764694286)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the VNA An Affiliate of Midland Care Connection breach identified under incident ID VNA1764694286.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of VNA An Affiliate of Midland Care Connection's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vnahomehealthhospice, the number of followers: 548, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 53 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 761 and after the incident was 697 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 VNA An Affiliate of Midland Care Connection and their customers.

On 22 January 2025, North Kansas City Hospital DBA NKC Health disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "North Kansas City Hospital DBA NKC Health Data Breach".

NKC Health announced a data breach involving its electronic medical record vendor, Cerner.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Cerner's electronic medical record system, and exposing Sensitive personally identifiable information.

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Delayed notification due to law enforcement requirements.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Delayed notification to patients and hospital customers due to law enforcement requirements.

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.

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 high confidence (90%), with evidence including unauthorized third party gained access to data maintained by Cerner, and third-party vendor compromise. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating access to data maintained by Cerner (electronic medical record vendor) and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized third party gained access to data maintained by Cerner. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach involving sensitive personally identifiable information and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cerners electronic medical record system compromised. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating data breach with high sensitivity of data and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of ransomware or encryption in incident details. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.