follow-up: Virus blamed for EHR breach in Canada

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http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/virus-blamed-ehr-breach-canada

Virus blamed for EHR breach in Canada
July 09, 2009 | Molly Merrill, Associate Editor

ALBERTA, CANADA  Officials are saying that a virus is to blame for 
compromising thousands of patient medical records at Alberta Health 
Services.

The virus impacted AHS' network and Netcare, Alberta's electronic health 
record, from May 15-29 before it was detected and removed, said officials.

The virus is said to be a new variant of a Trojan horse program called 
Coreflood, which is designed to steal data from an infected computer and 
send it to a server controlled by a hacker. Coreflood captures passwords 
and data the user of the computer accesses.

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