Federal authorities announced on Friday that former UCLA Healthcare System employee Huping Zhou admitted to accessing the hospital's system to snoop through the medical records of celebrity patients at the facility, the LA Weekly reports. Zhou's act constitutes a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Zhou is alleged to have improperly accessed the network 323 times. The Zhou case is not the first time a UCLA Health System employee improperly accessed celebrity medical records. In 2008, UCLA employee Lawanda Jackson pleaded guilty to selling celebrity medical records.
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