Hackers Break into Medical Server to Host COD: Black Ops Game
January 15th, 2011
There are a bunch of people really pissed at some hackers right now after the hackers wormed their way into a server that held medical records on 230,000 people. The servers that were compromised belong to Seacoast Radiology in New Hampshire.
The medical practice and administrators reportedly had no idea the server had been hacked until an admin noticed that the bandwidth of the server was low. On investigation, the admin found that hackers were running a multiplayer game of Call of Duty: Black Ops from the server.
The group called in an investigation team that somehow traced the source back to Scandinavia. Exactly how they traced it back is unknown. The breach was reported to the proper authorities. There is no word at this point on if the server was properly secured, or if there was some sort of dereliction of security practices that will see the medical practice sued into oblivion.
[via The Register]
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I sent an e-mail to Gizmodo who originally broke this story and still haven’t heard back from them on the matter, so I’ll inform you guys. There’s NO way this is possible. The security firm the hospital hired is obviously incompetent. If it were ANY Call Of Duty game other than Black Ops, it would be possible. However, CoD Black Ops is ONLY playable online via multiplayer over purchased STEAM servers (or whatever company Steam has a contract with). To this very date there is no “Hacked” way to play Black Ops multi-player non-steam. After doing some research, it is possible only to play a local Bot game using hacked/pirated software (offline). The “Security Firm” here should be investigated for fraud, and the hospital should be looking into it’s own employees if anyone WAS actually playing Black Ops… because if it were BO, it was happening on local systems, not from outside “Hackers.” Falsely accusing “Hackers” and “Gamers” for interrupting a hospital server is a terrible thing to do, and someone needs to make the public (and hospital administration) aware that this is a straight up LIE! Google Call Of Duty Black Ops Multi-player and spend some time researching this… you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.
-sneakily1 http://www.torchingigloos.com
sneakily is right. too bad media and execs are too stupid to realize this. another case of injustice done in our society.