HELLFIRE https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/pharmacist_accused_of_cyber_voyeurism/ A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization’s IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes. The civil lawsuit [PDF], filed last week in a Baltimore circuit court by Grant and Eisenhofer attorney Steve Kelly on behalf of six unidentified Jane Doe plaintiffs, alleges egregious privacy violations. Specifically, it’s claimed a UMMC pharmacist identified as Matthew Bathula used cameras connected to malware-infected PCs and home security systems to watch coworkers breastfeeding, having sex with their partners, and more. … The alleged cyber-voyeurism is said to have extended to accessing victims’ photos and identification documents stored on cloud services, such as Google Drive. By installing keylogging software on UMMC computers, Bathula was able to learn victims’ username and password patterns, which allowed him to infer the passwords of personal accounts unconnected to the university, as well as the webcam snooping, it is claimed. The lawsuit targets UMMC, rather than the named pharmacist, and claims the organization was negligent for failing to detect or stop Bathula’s use of keylogging software on hospital systems. It contends UMMC failed to comply with America’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which imposes health record security and breach notification obligations such as limiting the installation of software/hardware to administrators, preventing the use of USB drives, and the application of various other security controls. … UMMC insists it is now working to better protect its IT systems and apologized to those affected by the scandal. Regards