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Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records
cheerytt writes "Let this be a lesson to all the broken-hearted geeks out there. A 38-year-old Ohio man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he meant to install on the computer of a woman he'd had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at a children's hospital. Spyware was sent to the woman's Yahoo e-mail address in the hope it would be used to monitor what his former girlfriend was doing on her PC. But instead, she opened the spyware on a computer in the hospital's pediatric cardiac surgery department. The spyware sent more than 1,000 screen captures via e-mail, including details of medical procedures, diagnostic notes and other confidential information relating to 62 patients. The man will pay $33,000 to the hospital for damages and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison."
He should have just planted a GPS in her handbag, then he'd have the full protection of Massachusetts law.
Hey!!! speak for yourself.
Geeks create and/or build their own keyloggers from code so we would be sure that the chances it would be detected are low and that we are the only ones who would see it.
Also there is no such thing as a broken-hearted geek. Natalie Portman is still alive.
Note to self, quick and easy way to get rid of unwanted coworker.
That's quite a lot of money and jail time. Good thing he didn't download a song, then he'd REALLY be in trouble.