Hospital gave doctor special PC for personal use after malware outbreak
Original title: Hospital gave very sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure
Hospital ignored doctor's malware from adult content and provided a special PC for personal use, later leading to a lawsuit.
A hospital tech support worker described how a top organ transplant researcher's lab PCs became infected with malware from adult entertainment. Despite known policy violations, management took no action until a cyber-worm hit, traced to the doctor's PC. They then gave him a special PC from e-waste for personal use, which also got malware. The worker left, but graduate students later sued the hospital, using the special PC as evidence.
Unconfirmed: Whether the hospital was aware of the doctor's activities before the worm remains disputed
- Doctor's PC was source of hospital cyber-worm
- Hospital provided special PC for doctor's personal activities
- Doctor's behavior was known and policy violated but ignored
- Graduate students sued hospital using the special PC as evidence
Impact: malware outbreak from personal activities
- Vendors
- Hospital
- Malware
- cyber-worm
- Victims
- hospital
From the original article
2 min read at theregister.comSupport chap told to either allow blatant policy violations or find a new job
By Simon Sharwood · theregister.com
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