OR: Hospital donor files compromised

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS0107/803060442/1006&nav_category=NEWS0107

A computer virus may have exposed to outside eyes the names, credit card 
numbers, dates of birth and home addresses of more than 11,500 individuals 
who donated to Cascade Healthcare Community, the parent company of St. 
Charles in Bend and Redmond.

The virus penetrated the computer system Dec. 11, and the hospital.s 
information technology staff believed they had rebuffed it. But Feb. 5, 
they detected suspicious activity in the system and called in computer 
forensic experts to investigate.

By Feb. 20, it became clear the information had been made vulnerable by 
the virus.

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