Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-10-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hospital for Special Surgery
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Richard Liriano
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Richard Liriano was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to use malicious software programs, including a program known as a "keylogger," on dozens of his coworkers' computers at a New York City-area hospital, secretly obtaining user names and passwords to his victims' personal email and other accounts, and using that unauthorized access to steal private and confidential files.