[HN Gopher] Ex-CEO of hacked clinic sentenced for failing to pro...
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       Ex-CEO of hacked clinic sentenced for failing to protect patients'
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       Author : jacquesm
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-05-06 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bitdefender.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bitdefender.com)
        
       | voytec wrote:
       | Three months SUSPENDED sentence for 18 months of keeping the hack
       | under the rug? Joke of a verdict and a slap to the faces of
       | victims.
        
         | jabradoodle wrote:
         | For sure, and to top it off:
         | 
         | > For his part, Tapio has denied committing an offence, and
         | claimed that the responsibility for the breach fell on the
         | shoulders of former members of the company's IT team.
        
           | olliej wrote:
           | The responsibility for hiding the hack and failing to correct
           | the problems surely lies on the company management though,
           | right?
           | 
           | This seems like yet another case where a company thinks
           | keeping quiet and pretending nothing happened will be more
           | profitable.
        
         | jstarfish wrote:
         | root:root on anything is negligence and is a civil matter. This
         | should never have been tried in criminal court in the first
         | place.
         | 
         | His incompetence was exposed by a criminal act, but it isn't
         | what compromised the patients.
         | 
         | Hacking doesn't just happen as random acts of God. Failing to
         | protect against criminals should never be a crime in itself.
        
           | olliej wrote:
           | Failing to protect medical records should be a criminal
           | matter, and criminal negligence seems a common enough term I
           | assume that it is real rather than a made up cop drama term.
           | 
           | Also the traditional justification for ludicrous compensation
           | for CEOs etc is how much more risk and responsibility they
           | have, and this seems to be the CEO baring (minimal)
           | responsibility for the company's actions.
        
       | moremetadata wrote:
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