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Cyber Security Executive Confesses To Hacking Hospitals


Vikas Singla, an ex-COO of the US cybersecurity firm Securolytics has confessed to hacking two US hospitals with the intention to generate business for the company he was working for. In Court, Singla admitted responsibility for attacking the hospitals in Atlanta, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center.

Singla’s actions disrupted the hospital’s printers, phone systems and a digitizer (a device that allows input of handwritten notes into a computer) which resulted in financial losses exceeding $800,000 for Gwinnett Medical Center.

According to Cybernews, as part of the incident that occurred in September 2018, Singla disabled several hundred ASCOM phones used by the hospital staff, severely affecting the hospital’s work. That same day, he extracted several hundred patient names, dates of birth, and other data that was attached to a mammography machine. He later hijacked 200 printers in both hospitals and started printing the patient names that he stole, followed by a message reading “WE OWN YOU”.

He subsequently attempted to generate publicity about the attack, including the bpublication of information obtained without authorisation from the digitizer, with the aim to generate business for his company.

Singla set up a Twitter account several days later to post dozens of messages claiming that Gwinnett Medical Center was hacked and exposed stolen patient details to prove his point.  When the attack was complete, Securolytics emailed potential clients using the Gwinnett Medical Center hack as an example of inadequate security measures.

According to reports, prosecutors will recommend a sentence of 5 years probation, although the Judge can impose a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years at a sentencing hearing scheduled in February next year.

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Russian national confesses to biggest bank hack in US history

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A Russian national has admitted to carrying out the largest-known computer hack on a US bank. His 2014 breach of JPMorgan Chase generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit revenue and stole the data of more than 80 million JPMorgan clients.

Andrei Tyurin, 35, whose last name is also spelled Tiurin, also pleaded guilty to hacks against other US financial institutions, brokerage firms, and other companies. In all, he pleaded guilty in federal court to computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling as part of a securities-fraud scheme carried out by co-conspirators.

Prosecutors said that the from 2012 to mid-2015, Tyurin carried out a massive computer-hacking campaign that stole data belonging to more than 100 million customers of the targeted companies. The 2014 intrusion on JPMorgan alone resulted in the theft of more than 80 million customer records, making it the largest—or at least one of the largest—data hacks against a US financial institution.

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