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Hospital server clogged with MP3s

 
East Kent Hospitals Trust has circulated a warning to its staff after discovering large numbers of personal files, including MP3 music downloads, on one of its servers.

The abuse was discovered after a hard-disk crash on a server at the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in April. The restore routine took  much longer than expected. On investigation IT staff found a “significant number of large personal files” on the tapes, including music, videos and photos. These had evidently been downloaded by staff onto their desktop PCs and then stored on the server.

 

Full story in bjhc&im June 2006 (255 words)

 

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