The hospital learned in September 2012 an employee had accessed patients' personal and health information without permission. The employee accessed the patients' Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, addresses, birth dates and medical information, according to an Orange County Register report.
The employee who accessed the patients' information violated multiple hospital policies and was terminated, according to the report.
As a result of the data breach,
It is still unclear how many patients were affected by this incident, and the hospital declined to comment about the data breach.
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