Oct 06, 2023 12:30:00

There was a case where the server system stopped for 4 hours because a cat jumped on the keyboard

If you have ever kept a cat as a pet, you must have had the experience of a cat coming close to you while you were working on your PC. At

the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, it has been reported that a cat jumped on an engineer's keyboard, deleting server information and causing the system to stop for four hours.

VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/hospital_cat_incident/

In mid-September 2023, the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center experienced an outage for four hours. At a subsequent meeting of about 100 people, one of the engineers said, ``While I was checking the server

cluster configuration, my pet cat jumped on the keyboard and accidentally deleted data. 'I'm sorry,' he reported.

In response to the engineer's report, Kurt DelBene, assistant secretary for information technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, responded with a joke: ``I keep a dog because I don't want my data to be erased.''

Foreign media outlet The Register has requested comment from the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 'On September 13, 2023, the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center inadvertently deleted a server profile that was being used within the center,' said Terrence Hayes, a spokesperson for the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 'There was a problem transferring images using our proprietary software ' VistA '.' 'The cause of this system failure was quickly identified and the system was restored within four hours. There were no issues or direct impacts to veterans as a result of this failure.'

Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center uses VistA to create electronic medical records. VistA allows you to capture patient clinical images, scanned documents, patient videos, and other non-textual data and include them in the patient's electronic health record. In addition, with VistA, it is also possible to wirelessly receive

DICOM format image files taken by over 650 types of CT, MRI, CR, etc.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center has not officially acknowledged that cats were the cause of the system failure, and when The Register asked Hayes for comment about the cats, Hayes declined to comment. I'm refusing.

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