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Computers belonging to the UK's National Health Service have been hit with data-stealing malware, although it doesn't appear patient information was stolen, according to security vendor Symantec.

The computers were infected with Qakbot, a type of malicious software that can steal credit card information, passwords, Internet search histories and other data from machines, wrote Patrick Fitzgerald, senior security response manager at Symantec, in a blog.

The Register reported early Friday that the infection affected "the National Health Service (NHS) network," taking a direct quote from the blog. It appears the blog was revised at some point on Friday morning to take out the reference to the NHS.

When contacted, Symantec said it usually gives organizations eight hours ahead notice of a problem before they will blog on the subject, according to a spokeswoman for the company. The blog post was changed and will stay changed, the spokeswoman said, but confirmed it was the NHS that had been hit.

"Logs show that there is a significant Qakbot infection on a major national health organization network in the UK," Fitzgerald's post now reads. "This threat has managed to infect over 1,100 separate computers that are spread across multiple subnets within their network.

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