A 45-year-old Indian-origin man has been charged with conducting a cyber-attack on a hospital in the US state of Georgia in 2018. Vikas Singla, a resident of Marietta, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury in state capital Atlanta on June 8, 2021. The indictment and other information presented in court state that Singla was responsible for disrupting phone service, obtaining information from a digitising device, and disrupted network printer service. In total, Singla is facing 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and one count of obtaining information from a protected computer. The Trial Attorney is Brian Mund of the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.

Source: Mint June 12, 2021 16:41 UTC