- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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.
Hackermans
it’s almost as if company begged to get hacked. but imagine the horror those people whose data was leaked had to go through. they open up to their psychologist and now everyone knows about it.
Betterhelp is owned by facebook…Or meta or whatever the fuck it’s called now.
Better help is owned by Teladoc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teladoc_Health