I have been a victim of Hearing Device hacking. My remote control unit has a hackers first choice for a password. However, I was determined enough to bring several of the hackers to justice. But I had to be bloody minded to get my ISP to take me seriously, but the police did take action when I gave them evidence + articles from www.sans.org about BT hacking and medical device hacking. And I paid $6000 + a government subsidy for the privilege of being repeatedly hacked. Most people believe the BS about "discovery mode" etc. Forget firewalls. Even with VPN they can hack at the device level, rendering VPN useless. You can be hacked simply by turning a BT device on. Android have a bluetooth firewall and wireless killer which help a bit in showing hacking.
I know the police and ISP took action, as I had given them free access to all my devices, and I saw their connection on my computer. Shortly afterwards several of the hackers moved out of the area, possibly due to fines or injunctions. Hacking and interfering with medical devices is a crime after all.
They did not damage the programs on the RCU but used it to do DOS attacks on devices with bluetooth or attached BT transmitters.
Now, most hearing aids have bluetooth.
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I have been a victim of Hearing Device hacking. My remote control unit has a hackers first choice for a password. However, I was determined enough to bring several of the hackers to justice. But I had to be bloody minded to get my ISP to take me seriously, but the police did take action when I gave them evidence + articles from www.sans.org about BT hacking and medical device hacking. And I paid $6000 + a government subsidy for the privilege of being repeatedly hacked. Most people believe the BS about "discovery mode" etc. Forget firewalls. Even with VPN they can hack at the device level, rendering VPN useless. You can be hacked simply by turning a BT device on. Android have a bluetooth firewall and wireless killer which help a bit in showing hacking.
I know the police and ISP took action, as I had given them free access to all my devices, and I saw their connection on my computer. Shortly afterwards several of the hackers moved out of the area, possibly due to fines or injunctions. Hacking and interfering with medical devices is a crime after all.
They did not damage the programs on the RCU but used it to do DOS attacks on devices with bluetooth or attached BT transmitters.
Now, most hearing aids have bluetooth.