Viruses Plague Hospital Systems, Leak Patient Information, Data Loss

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Viruses Plague Hospital Systems, Leak Patient Information, Data Loss

https://www.hitrustcentral.net/blogs/ht/archive/2009/07/12/viruses-plague-hospital-systems-leak-patient-information-data-loss.aspx


The Telegraph is reporting that more than 8,000 computer viruses have 
infected NHS computers over the past twelve months.  These, apparently, 
were not just nuisance infections, but caused patient appointments to be 
rescheduled, caused test results to be lost, and kept some NHS staff 
from accessing their systems.

The breaches were learned after a freedom of information request
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