Indian-origin man charged with cyber attack on US hospital

Washington: The US Department of Justice has filed charges against Indian-origin Vikas Singla, a former cybersecurity official, for a cyber-attack on a hospital in the state of Georgia in 2018.

According to the indictment, Singla, 45, the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company Securolytics that served the health care industry, allegedly conducted a cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center that involved disrupting phone service, obtaining information from a digitising device, and disrupting network printer service.