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classic opsec mistake (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/10692187

so, the company was Vastaamo. was because it got bankrupt after the breach, and GDPR violations.

the "hacker"(or rather cracker) was extradited from France to Finland.
you can read about how terrible the company's security was here: https://tietosuoja.fi/en/-/administrative-fine-imposed-on-psychotherapy-centre-vastaamo-for-data-protection-violations

or watch mental outlaw's video on the matter, or the Wikipedia article on the breach.

now there are several things that shouldn't have happened (e.g.: don't do these things on your main OS, have root access disabled, etc.), but I'll leave that to you experts.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just was reading Wikipedia and it said he was arrested previously for hacking.

In 2015, when he was still a teenager, a Finnish court found Kivimäki guilty of more than 50,000 aggravated computer break-ins. Among other targets, he attacked large educational institutions in the US, hijacking emails, stealing credit card details and blocking site traffic.

Kivimäki received a two year suspended sentence for those charges.

https://yle.fi/a/3-12669196

You're probably right he had some connection and stumbled onto the data, but this wasn't his first rodeo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Thanks for pointing it out. This makes it even more embarassing that he made a mistake like this. But I can still see how it could happen.