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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] 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Really who the fuck creates an email for that kinda thing with full names !

    [–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    it's USA. don't expect much.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    If you're facilitating drung sales in tor anonymity should be your main priority.