As if you need more reasons to hate going to the dentist

from here and here

A dental health insurance company was breached and ransomed, but because they didn't pay, the data got leaked. I suppose if the crooks are going to ransom a company over it's data a health insurance company seems like a pretty good bet. They've got lots of money and I don't think they can arbitrarily pass on the additional cost to their customers.

Insurance Scam Backfires on Scammer

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It stands to reason that those to scammers would have been in serious hot water if they had waited for the police to arrive and see the dashcam footage, but I wonder about what would have happened without the dashcam. How many times can the scammers face the police before an officer realizes they've seen these accident 'victims' before? Could one protect oneself from this kind of scam simply by being an upstanding citizen and calling the police about one's own supposed misdeed? Anyway, the dashcam obviously helped a lot here.