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Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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The security blunders are obviously horrible, but MAYBE explained by inexperienced developers tasked with something way beyond their understanding. But how on earth did anyone approve storing confidential customer documents in an email account? This seems to indicate there's nobody in charge that understands anything about how to run this business. And if it's a subsidiary or outsourcing partner, it also shows that n…

> But how on earth did anyone approve storing confidential customer documents in an email account?

Given the competence shown here, I doubt anyone approved anything. Most likely saving sent mail was a feature of whatever mail server they're using and it was a byproduct of the dumb decision to use an actual account for a "noreply" address.

Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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Do you have a… less visceral metaphor? Or some information I can read about? I’m curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Commissioner#I...

Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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It's always fascinating that, seemingly, the smarter you are in general the stupider you are with computers.

Were you looking for the stupider you are, the stupider you are?

Total incomprehension of the driving force behind society for decades is not an indicator of intelligence.

Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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India has bigger problems than data leakages.

Persistent power being one of these.

Can't wait til there's enough electricity in India to where hacks become a primary concern.

They're laying down 100k kilometesr of fiber optic per a month and 350 5g cell sites per day.

Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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I've seen similar levels of incompetence first hand. This isn't someone actively ignoring important security warnings. This is someone not understanding what you are talking about. This is someone who, at a fundamental level, has no grasp of the landscape they are operating in or the challenges they are up against. This is someone who wants you to go away because the jargon you're talking doesn't make any sense to th…

> This is someone who, at a fundamental level, has no grasp of the landscape they are operating in or the challenges they are up against. This is someone who wants you to go away because the jargon you're talking doesn't make any sense to them or their team. Sounds like exactly the kind of someone you wouldn't want to have to trust with your personal information let alone trust to manage your life/property/business/l…

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Re: Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator

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> This is someone who, at a fundamental level, has no grasp of the landscape they are operating in or the challenges they are up against. This is someone who wants you to go away because the jargon you're talking doesn't make any sense to them or their team. Sounds like exactly the kind of someone you wouldn't want to have to trust with your personal information let alone trust to manage your life/property/business/l…

Unfortunately the people in charge of hiring IT Directors often aren't qualified to hire IT Directors.

Don't stop there.
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