IT guy from FEMA hacked medical center, sold data on dark web

A Michigan-based man identified as Justin Sean Johnson has been arrested by Pittsburg law enforcement authorities and indicted in the infamous hack attack targeting the University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), a non-profit health care organization, in 2014.

According to the Federal prosecutors in Pittsburg, the 29-year-old Johnson managed to steal private data of over 65,000 UPMC employees after hacking the Oracle PeopleSoft databases of UPMC by targeting its human resources’ server back in 2013 and 2014. The stolen data was then sold on the dark web.

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