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.

  • anivia@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 months ago

    and sometimes I sail the high seas

    Yeah, but it’s useless for that. If you pirate from Usenet or one click hosters you don’t need a VPN, and if you use torrents or other peer to peer protocols you need port forwarding, which NordVPN doesn’t support