NHS working with cops and ICO to determine if patients must be told
A Stoke-on-Trent hospital administrator has avoided prison after hacking his NHS trust and helping himself to almost 9,000 heart scan images.
Daniel Moonie, a 27-year-old of Waterlily Close, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, was cautioned by police in 2017 after he was caught remotely accessing the internal network of the Royal Stoke hospital, something he wasn't authorised to do.
Moonie, who was employed by the hospital's heart and lung department as an administrator, was sacked. As part of the police caution he agreed not to access any IT system within the hospital, not to enter the hospital unless he was ill or visiting a patient, and not to contact hospital staff unless asked to by the HR department.
He later unsuccessfully appealed against the caution. Crown prosecutor Paul Spratt told Stoke-on-Trent Crown court: " ..
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