The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company's business.
  • ShunkW
    6·
    1 year ago

    Wow. What a dumb idea to promote your company.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      7·
      1 year ago

      Don’t sell him short. This was a sequence of dumb ideas.

      • hacking a hospital without approval
      • stealing patient results
      • tweeting stolen patient results
      • disrupt hospital communication systems.
      • disrupting hospital printers and wasting their resources.

      Each of those steps should have triggered a rational person to reevaluation their choices…