A cybersecurity firm's COO, Vikas Singla, pleaded guilty to intentionally damaging a protected computer in a series of cyberattacks on two hospitals in Georgia in 2018. Singla orchestrated the attacks as a ruse to promote his company's services, emailing clients and prospects immediately after the attacks. The attacks rendered hospital phones inoperable, took offline more than 200 ASCOM handset devices, and accessed patient information without authorization. Singla also caused printers to print patient information interspersed with the message 'WE OWN YOU' and created a Twitter account to claim that the hospitals had been hacked. He has agreed to pay nearly $818,000 in restitution to the medical center and its insurance company. Singla faces a recommended sentence of 57 months of probation, including home detention, due to his medical conditions. This incident highlights the blurred line between good and bad actors in the cybersecurity world. [2d15bb58]