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-violationsor 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.
No. This is fake, it's gotta be. Not even the "I use Kali by the way" script kiddies are that stupid.
you're underestimating people's capability to make such mistakes. remember silk road? the guy used the same username in two places, and gave his email id(which had his full name) in one of them.
Really who the fuck creates an email for that kinda thing with full names !
it was late 2000s(he was arrested in 2013, before snowden leaks). and the guy wasn't a "hacker". he created the website where stuff(both legal and illegal) was sold. so, you have to keep that perspective in mind.
Oh yeah i remember that guy i i thought you were talking about someone else. And in my opinion they should just free him he has done more time that he should have to whie other bigger criminals than him with money are running around free . But still it was a very noob mistake of course unless he did it delibretly because he didn't care about anonymity.
it's USA. don't expect much.
If you're facilitating drung sales in tor anonymity should be your main priority.
Not saying its actually what happened but I would ask how he knew about the data.
Statistically, it should have been a random port scan that got in but since he‘s from the same country, he‘s either professionally or privately connected I assume. He either worked there in IT function, visited as a patient, dated an employee, etc.
So in other words, he‘s not a master hacker but probably stumbled across this. I had this with a webspace provider once were I could see all other customers folders when I used ssh instead of the web interface. I couldnt access them but I got a wiff of how stuff like this happens. 99.9% of their customers are inept at IT stuff so a mistake in ssh would never come up since customers wouldn’t use it and in that one case, they overlook it.
So, this might have been his first hack ever and it probably took a long time til he even understood what he had in his hands. Thats why I dont do stuff like this, I‘m prone to such mistakes as well. Most elaborate scheme imaginable and cc it by mistake to someone I know.
I just was reading Wikipedia and it said he was arrested previously for hacking.
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.
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.
Oh you wish. It was huge news, a shit ton of people.got their information and social security numbers leaked in plain text
The main reason I've never done anything illegal online (not counting piracy) is that I'm confident I've been that stupid many times and will be if I do.