Security News > 2021 > June > Network security firm COO charged with medical center cyberattack
The former chief operating officer of Securolytics, a network security company providing services for the health care industry, was charged with allegedly conducting a cyberattack on Georgia-based Gwinnett Medical Center.
45-year-old Vikas Singla supposedly disrupted the health provider's Ascom phone service and network printer service and obtained information from a Hologic R2 Digitizer digitizing device in September 2018.
The Securolytics executive was charged with 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer, each of the counts carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
"Criminal disruptions of hospital computer networks can have tragic consequences," added Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
"The department is committed to holding accountable those who endanger the lives of patients by damaging computers that are essential in the operation of our health care system."
"Gwinnett Medical Center recently discovered a security incident. At this time, we are continuing to investigate the issue I can confirm that patient care activities have not been impacted," a GMC spokesperson told ZDNet at the time.