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Re:A billion medical images are exposed online by sizzle on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:47PM (#22022190)
"An attacker then used those credentials to breach the network and siphoned several hundred thousand dollars from the financial system (wiring money to himself)."

You're telling me the CEO was unfazed when they learned this was the reason you were locking down the system due to the doctor's own ineptitude and breaking company policy looking at porn and exposing them to direct financial loss and liability (lawsuits from PII data being breached and exfiltrated, etc)?

The doctor put the whole hospital at risk and could have cost them millions and got that cryptolocker attack holding their data hostage indefinitely.

The CEO should be thanking you guys for catching these huge security ($$$) breaches.

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Re:A billion medical images are exposed online by txcwpalpha on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:05PM (#22022292)
I wouldn't say unfazed, but as I recall the reaction was more that the doctor wasn't to be blamed and that it was security's fault for not only "allowing" the breach to happen, but also for inconveniencing the doctor.

At the organizations I worked with, doctors really have carte blanche privilege to get away with anything as long as they claim "it's for a patient". Even the C-suite will bend over backwards for MDs.

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