Dutch MP must cough €750 for hacking into medical lab

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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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