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Date: 2013-02-20 7:10:12
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/dutch_mp_ethical_hacking_fine/
By John Leyden
The Register
19th February 2013
A Dutch MP has been fined €750 ( £650, $1,000) after he was convicted of
illegally accessing the systems of a Dutch medical laboratory.
Henk Krol claims he only accessed the systems of Diagnostics for You in order
to expose sloppy security practices. The MP, who is the leader of Dutch
minority pensioners party, 50plus, used a login and password that he had
obtained from a patient at the clinic in April last year to access and download
medical files relating to several people. The patient had apparently overheard
the login information from a member of staff.
The journalist and politician informed the laboratory about its inadequate
security, and presented redacted copies of the medical information he had
obtained. He also reported the incident to local TV station Omroep Brabant,
carrying out an on-air demonstration of the lab's lax security practices during
which medical records were again accessed.
Krol, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gay Krant, hacked into the system
just months before he was elected to the Dutch parliament last September. The
politician told the court that he had acted as a journalist and ethical hacker
at the time of the breach.
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