Claim

Vastaamo cyber attack INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA default credentials

According to Ransom Man's forum statement, access to the database was easy because it had no password and used the credentials 'root root'.

Episode

EP 159 — Vastaamo

Origin

Attributed

Confidence

95% (extractor score, not a fact score)

Speaker

Joe Tidy

Attributed source

Ransom Man

Transcript evidence

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:40:28.143697+00:00

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