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UK hospital page becomes porn site

Webmaster mistakenly shifts Internet address

July 30, 2002 Posted: 3:31 PM EDT (1931 GMT)

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Patients trying to view the Web site of a United Kingdom hospital instead found themselves watching hardcore German pornography.

Instead of information about Queen's Hospital in Burton upon Trent, visitors unwittingly downloaded adult material after the site's webmaster in the United States reallocated its Internet address to another company.

Boxes appeared on the screen featuring questions written in German, with only the word "OK" recognizable as English. Once "OK" was clicked, the user was presented with a graphic window offering the opportunity to connect to a site called "Dirtymoviez."

"Due to a technical error in America the Web space was reallocated to a foreign company with no links to Burton hospital," a hospital spokesman said.

"This company used it to put adult material on its Web site and as result the old address takes visitors to a site containing adult material."

The hospital, which rushed to set up a new Web site, said it complained to the webmaster and received a refund.

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