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."

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[Exception Duck]

We need to automatically post the top story of the day 4,5,6 years ago from now, you could use.
Take the most commented story on those 3 days in question, repost it.

Also why doesn't /. work on chrome, the +- thingy appear at the bottom of the story.

Re:Stereotype much?

[mcgrew]

Also there is no such thing as a broken-hearted geek

Yes there is.