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EPISODE · Apr 30, 2026 · 5 MIN

What Healthcare Can Learn From a 20 Year Old Hacker | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

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Matthew Lane was 14 when he started probing the edges of online gaming systems. By 20, he had walked out of PowerSchool with data on nearly 70 million students and teachers using nothing but a contractor's stolen credentials he found on the dark web. Drex tells the full story and then lands the part that matters most for healthcare: Lane didn't exploit a sophisticated vulnerability. He used a username and password attached to someone who had legitimate access and simply walked through the front door. How many of your vendors have credentials that have never been audited? How many former contractors still have access? Is everyone using MFA on every system? The fundamentals are still the open book test, and too many organizations aren't passing it.Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer 

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