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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famous Winnie the pooh meme template. I'm first row pooh is dressed in normal clothes without much facial expression. the text reads, "computer virus".
in next row, pooh is wearing a tuxedo with a smile. the text now reads, "self replicating automata."

I understand that when Von Neumann was talking about self replicating automata, he meant something more general.

Hot on the heels of the latest breach.

update / patch all the things

I'm not sure if I would be honored or offended.

Anybody else get those couple people who just think it can't happen to them even if it has a few times already? Maybe they'll start paying attention now...

From now on, I'm not even connecting to the families home WiFi

For those attending Defcon we should do a meetup.

I plan on being there.