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Indictment in UCLA Medical Record Snooping

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, a a worker - since fired - was responsible for snooping through 61 electronic medical records at the UCLA Medical Center, 32 of which were those of celebrities including California first lady Maria Shriver and actor Farrah Fawcett.

News reports are coming out that the worker was indicted on one count of illegally obtaining individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage.

The ex-worker allegedly received $4,600 from an unidentified media outlet in exchange for providing the private medical information.

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