Gamers Raid Medical Server to Host Black Ops

[Guest]

I worked in the medical field, this is not so surprising. Some facilities have poor network management and policies. I was only the IT 'grunt' and my professional suggestions fell on deaf ears because the main IT guy stated that nothing was wrong and everything is fine, he didn't know much of anything.. THe hackers probably just scanned for open ftp/etc ports, and went to town on an easy target.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]im_thelumberjack[/nom]Why would you create a dedicated server over 4,000 miles away none the less hack one to play a game. The pings would be terrible.[/citation]
because its funny.
and this is a computer patient data was stored on, nothing that put people in harms way.

 

[spectrewind]

Something's wrong here... (aside from the obvious)...
What I'm hearing in this?...
Patient data? HIPAA? HL7 transactions for ADT in a hospital environment on a web server exposed to the Internet?

Perhaps a web server susceptible to SQL injections/poisoning?

 

[spectrewind]

[citation][nom]JsPcKiP[/nom]HIPPA wont be happy[/citation]

HIPAA is just a law.

JCAHO, on the other hand, can revoke a hospital accreditation, which tends to negatively affect insurance coverage. Read: No income for the hospital.

 

[Travis Beane]

Reading this makes me a unhappy man.

 

[cozmicshredder]

Completely lame I hardly doubt it was Scandinavia hackers! I think it was people who worked for the Hospital probably the IT department there! If it were my hospital I would have fire all the IT people there over this either way!

 

[formin]

paying for a dedicated server to host a multi-player server is expensive
i would have used government servers tho... they are idle most of the time just like the employees

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]im_thelumberjack[/nom]Why would you create a dedicated server over 4,000 miles away none the less hack one to play a game. The pings would be terrible.[/citation]
you sure about that? usually servers for multi million dollar companies are so fast that there is really no ping time

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]I say its the Hospital's fault for not encrypting their connection, dummies.[/citation]
they should fire the network admin

 

[dEAne]

For fun or no fun that is not a good idea - hacking a medical server is a great loser, it will proves nothing.

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]you sure about that? usually servers for multi million dollar companies are so fast that there is really no ping time[/citation]

Yeah, but data has to travel across the atlantic ocean to the server and back in realtime, causing ping issues.

I'm no expert, but even aerial transmission isn't fast enough to make that worthwhile.

 

[makwy2]

I love how people have turned this into a discussion of the game itself or dedicated servers when the story should make only this clear: a bunch of juvenille gamers decided to put their 'fun' over other people's saftey. The End. Bad people doing bad things.

 

[borisof007]

[citation][nom]jdamon113[/nom]I"m Hit !!!! Medic !!!!!!!!!!!!![/citation]
lol! +1

 

[jgutz2006]

I've worked for United Health Group in a massive data center and always thought how slick it would be to just use one for storage (Hosting/sharing files) or gaming to utilize the multiple OC192 lines and the MASSIVE clustered servers!

 

[jgutz2006]

I'm guessing the particular box that got hacked and used, was not hosting this critical data, it was likely one in a cluster of servers and probably had a simple iSCSI or fibre type connection to a SAN hosting the data

 

[jakmove]

HIPAA is about to make a lot of money off this hospital

 

[HavoCnMe]

How did that work? I thought dedicated servers were only allowed to be hosted at GameServers.com. Oh well i didn't buy this POS anyways. Continue to amaze us CoD fanboys, try to host from speedtest.net next time. JMO

 

[psychotek71]

you all epic fail by using medical server it didn't harm any one it just stored their medical info so no harm no foul

 

[tokencode]

Medical records and definitely NOT always kept as hard-copies. This is obviously due to a huge security breach at the hospital. You should never allow INBOUND connections from the internet directly to a server that contains sensitive data. If these weren't allowed, the server would not have accepted the black-ops connections, My guess is that someone's head is going to roll at the hospital, or maybe they can make it a little more humane with a headshot.

 

[qu3becker]

They could use the Wikileaks server instead and add a mod that replace the nazies or generic villains to Julian Assange(s)

 

[Scott2010au]

The 'IT Specialist' at fault will probably get a promotion for picking it up too, instead of being fired for the most monumental fuck-up in weeks!