Georgia officer dies in off-duty head-on collision
25-year-old Jacob Peek, a City of Auburn Police Officer, was pronounced dead on the scene. The other driver has been identified as Zachary C. Smith, 28.
Credit: Lorri Davidson
Friends of Peek went to social media to remember the officer, including Lorri Davidson. “Forever young my friend.RIP,” Davidson wrote. Author: Ryan Dennis (11Alive) Updated: 10:10 PM EDT July 19, 2021
BARROW COUNTY, Ga. An off-duty officer and another driver were killed in a head-on collision on Saturday.
Georgia State Patrol reports the accident happened just after midnight. Authorities said 25-year-old Jacob Peek, a City of Auburn Police officer, was pronounced dead on the scene.
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Indian-origin man charged with cyber attack on Georgia hospital
Washington–The US Department of Justice has filed charges against Indian-origin Vikas Singla, a former cybersecurity official, for a cyber-attack on a hospital in Georgia in 2018.
According to the indictment, Singla, 45, the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company Securolytics that served the health care industry, allegedly conducted a cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center that involved disrupting phone service, obtaining information from a digitising device, and disrupting network printer service.
Singla is charged with 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment, and one count of obtaining information by computer from a protected computer, which carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment.
Vikas Singla, the chief operating officer of a network security enterprise working for the healthcare sector has been accused by federal prosecutors of alleged crimes coming from a cyberattack on Georgia-based Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) back in September 2018.
According to the charges, the attack conducted by the 45 years old man involved disrupting phone and network printer service and gaining information from a digitizing device. The indictment further alleges that the cyberattack on the medical center was carried out, in part, for financial profit.
Special Agent in Charge Chris Hacker of the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office stated:
This cyberattack on a hospital not only could have had disastrous consequences but patients’ personal information was also compromised. The FBI and our law enforcement partners are determined to hold accountable, those who allegedly put people’s health and safety at risk while driven by greed.