Former AZ Sint-Jan IT specialist avoids prison after hacking female colleagues’ computers
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- A 43-year-old former AZ Sint-Jan computer specialist received a lighter sentence on appeal for hacking colleagues’ computers.
- He accessed the computers of hundreds of female colleagues while searching for passwords and personal photos, including nude or partially nude images.
A former computer specialist at AZ Sint-Jan hospital in Bruges will not have to serve a prison sentence after an appeals court reduced his punishment for hacking female colleagues’ computers.
The 43-year-old man from Zedelgem broke into the computers of hundreds of women who had worked alongside him at the hospital. He searched for passwords and personal photographs.
The images he sought mainly included nude photographs or pictures showing the women partially undressed. The case concerned his former position as a computer specialist at the Bruges hospital.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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