Western PA hospital victim of Russian cyber attack, DOJ says

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WPXI.com News Staff
Updated: October 19, 2020 - 2:26 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A western Pennsylvania hospital system was one of several victims of what officials said were coordinated worldwide computer attacks conducted by six Russian military officers.
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicted the six members of Unit 74455 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false registration of a domain name.

... Victims of the attacks included hospitals and other medical facilities in the Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania; a FedEx subsidiary, TNT Express B.V.; and a large U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, which together suffered nearly $1 billion in losses from the attacks.
Officials said the cyber-attacks also included Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize Ukraine, Georgia, elections in France, efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent Novichok on foreign soil and the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games after Russian athletes were banned due to government-sponsored doping efforts.

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