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Likewise my mammography center!
Also, if you're lucky, keep your eyes open for a class action settlement in a couple of years馃 .
I thought it particularly tasteless that the class action firm sent this as a postcard, asking you to return the postcard with your email address or phone number written on it. They had an option to get a check sent to the address on file, too, but checks don't work well for everyone. (Not expecting a large check, either, lol).
@JMMaok @jalefkowit Keep a lookout for your one dollar and NINE CENTS!
@JMMaok @jalefkowit Do the hackers steal the actual .DICOM files too? What would they do with them? The only application i can think of is maybe to train some machine learning model to detect pathologies.
In my case I think they said only account data was compromised. But it's probably hard to prove a negative to a bunch of lawyers, especially when the center's cybersecurity was clearly crap to begin with.
In the case of mammography, image files also show who has implants or reconstruction. Not sure of the extortion potential of that, but it would make people uncomfortable to have that info out there. That could be a goal of misogynist hackers. 1/2
There was an incident of mammography-related hacking in 2007 (discovered in 2009) that got quite a bit of attention, because UNC Chapel Hill considered dismissing a tenured full professor who oversaw a breast cancer research program https://databreaches.net/2010/10/07/cancer-researcher-fights-unc-demotion-over-data-breach/
As much as I think this data breach is horrible, the discipline held the faculty member to an unusually high standard. Speculation - whose data were included in the leak? 2/2
@JMMaok @CosmicCactus @jalefkowit And then, there's shit like this:
CW: CT scan of a female abdomen, personal info clearly visible
https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/116647133376755484
Sometimes connecting to public, unprotected VNC servers is enough to "hack a medical provider" ...
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