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classic opsec mistake (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago by lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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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[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

but the service for what it is is pretty good

I disagree. Most people wouldn't need it at all, and for most people that would actually need it it's useless due to not supporting port forwarding

[-] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mainly so someone doesn’t get my ip and know my city and sometimes I sail the high seas

I know ip is useless. I just don’t want someone to get my city and send an investigator

I fully agree with your point. I feel like sponsor scripts should say these points. 1: if somebody sends you an ip tracker link Nord won’t leak your IP 2. if you want to watch georestricted content 3. If you are on someone else’s network and you don’t want them peeping your websites. 4. 🏴‍☠️

[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 1 points 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

[-] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

It works for me and the ISP hasn’t caught on

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