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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Exactly, was it a burglary when your front door is open, lights on, spotlights on your wall safe, with the keys still inserted? The CEO should be in prison.

Yes it absolutely is still a burglary. Classic victim blaming.

Who’s the victim? The CEO? I think the patients are the victims here.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU

The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles. The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha... >Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically sc…

It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Knowing the timeline of events and the nicknames attributed to him (ryanlol included), some interesting posts can be found. For example, in the period between the CEO starting communication (September 2020) and the clinic's public admission (October 2020) [1], ryanlol replied to a top comment (Oct 3, 2020): "If you’re a hospital or, say, a school district, 'never pay' is simply an unconscionable attitude" [2]. Isn't it a hacker raging at the management that refuses to pay?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach#Backgroun...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24672687

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Yes it absolutely is still a burglary. Classic victim blaming.

Who’s the victim? The CEO? I think the patients are the victims here.

I'm not well versed in Finnish law - but in the USA simply the act of accessing a computer without authorization, even if it not secured, can be a crime under the CFAA. So the company is still a victim, and obviously the patients as well, even if they are incompetent. For the same reason that a person that gets burgled because they left their door unlocked when they left the house is still a victim.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles. The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha... >Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically sc…

It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.

I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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I find it strange to report on a hacker releasing personal information, while building the narrative of the story with all of the personal details like "she’d had three children by the time she was 25, including twins who had been born extremely prematurely in the 1980s, weighing only a few hundred grams each", "crumbling marriage", and suicidal ideations.

I thought the whole point is that they were upset that their personal life was being broadcasted to the internet.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.

I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it.

Well, judging by this thread, it doesn’t seem like it.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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The queries appear to have been looking for me specifically, filtering by date of birth. That wouldn't be a good way to find my relatives.

Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?

I doubt it. I think it's just cops doing shitty work under pressure and then trying to cover it up.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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> “absolutely everything” It isn’t absolutely everything, it’s for negligence. If you don’t have basics in place, like independent pen-tests, ISO 27001 audits — or some equivalent — when you’re handling clinical data, then that’s negligence. If a breach happens and you were seen to have followed best practice, you won’t be found criminally negligent. That is part of being an executive. The buck stops with you — if yo…

>if you’re an executive [...] you get the big bucks for a reason In Finland? Notably wage-compressed Finland? No comment on the specifics of this case, I agree with you that the executive should be where the buck stops. But you would be surprised how many various execs I have met here over the years who admit behind closed doors they really do treat it as a fancy job title that barely pays above their last position,…

Posting anonymously here. I was on the leadership team of a Nordic public company, reporting to the CEO, presenting to the board and representing the company at the AGM. Total comp a little under $200k.

The compensation really didn’t match what you take on in terms of responsibility and legal liability. The stress was significant too. That said, as you point out, the work needs doing.

Recommended if you have an over-active sense of duty, not otherwise.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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The comment you are replying to has no idea what they are talking about. Burglary is defined in the Theft Act 1968: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 The door can be wide open. The important parts are you are trespassing with the intent to commit a crime.

Literally invented the term ”cat burglar” lol! Commenter above is British too so it’s hilarious he thinks burglary isn’t a thing.

I am English. It took me all of like 30 seconds to look up the relevant law using Google. Most of Anglosphere has a definition of Burglary that is essentially the same and I suspect it is the same in Europe.
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