Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records 319
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."
Wrong type of tracking (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stereotype much? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey!!! speak for yourself.
Re:Stereotype much? (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:The Woman (Score:3, Funny)
Note to self, quick and easy way to get rid of unwanted coworker.
Pretty Steep (Score:1, Funny)
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.