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Man gets 7 years in prison for hacking 65K health care employees

Justin Sean Johnson, also known as TheDearthStar and Dearthy Star, was sentenced this week to seven years in prison for the 2014 hack of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Johnson breached UPMC’s network in early December 2013 after hacking the health care provider’s Oracle PeopleSoft human resource management system. Johnson stole the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and W-2 info (including names, Social Security numbers, addresses and salary information) of more than 65,000 employees. Johnson was charged in a forty-three count indictment with conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.”]

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-gets-7-years-in-prison-for-hacking-65k-health-care-employees/

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