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Australian patients’ medical records could be sold on dark web after clinics’ data breach (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] stevles@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Unfortunately, working in IT you get the inside knowledge of how abysmal some users protect their credentials. An email comes in: “Oh no my password will expire!”, enters credentials without any consideration, 3 minutes later their emails are cloned and access to their companies system has been provided to the world.

The kicker? They don’t even report it until they notice something unusual like emails bouncing when they send out or no emails coming in, etc. Companies really need to push cybersecurity training on their staff and MFA enforcement above all else, there is no silver bullet for this sort of thing, but throw up enough roadblocks and access will come too difficult for the average script kiddy.