Got a letter from the urology center that treated my kidney stone a few years back telling me that their systems have been hacked, which I guess is at least a novel way to get your dick pics leaked

@jalefkowit

Likewise my mammography center!

Also, if you're lucky, keep your eyes open for a class action settlement in a couple of years🤞 .

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 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.

@CosmicCactus @jalefkowit

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

@CosmicCactus @jalefkowit

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

@jalefkowit

Sorry your shitpost tapped into this deep cut 😄

@CosmicCactus

@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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Attached: 1 image IP/Port: 189.115.139.178:5900 Hostname: corporativo.static.gvt.net.br Client Name: N/A Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR 🇧🇷 ASN: AS18881 TELEFÔNICA BRASIL S.A VNC Password: 1234 ID: 94627533 Added to DB: 05/07/2025, 01:24:33 AM (UTC) Last seen: 05/06/2025, 09:22:35 PM (UTC) https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/94627533

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