Comment by 7777332215
13 hours ago
This is why you should not go to a therapist who uses electronic records. This will happen to you at some point.
13 hours ago
This is why you should not go to a therapist who uses electronic records. This will happen to you at some point.
Or: this is why you strictly regulate the storage of confidential/private/sensitive information.
There were multiple failures here, but a single step could've prevented the entire hack: industry-standard encryption of the sensitive information.
You could use a fake name/address? That would make it hard to trace back the records to you should they leak.
I think most people are not seeking therapy and even fewer are seeking therapy under hostile conditions.
i guess you should never use banks that use “electronics” either, right? just cash and paper records?
Basically the whole model of Better Help.
Any insurance covered therapy in the US. And assume any private practice that does not explicitly state they do not electronically store session notes.
Apart from therapy, I expect a lot of sensitive and private information to be hacked and released in the next 10 years. Most importantly, all non securely encrypted text based communications.
Which begs the question why this all has to be put in electronic form.
Using your face or fingerprint to unlock things, which anyone can steal. Many people even have their retinal scans stored in their opticians' databases which won't be secure either as biometric ID.
I thought the model of Better Help was hiring people who are completely unqualified to be therapists and then selling them as therapists.
Well, there's that too.