A former UCLA Health Systems employee has been sentenced to four months in jail for snooping into celebrities' medical records.

"Huping Zhou, 47, of Los Angeles, who was sentenced Tuesday, now has the dubious distinction of being the first person to ever receive prison time for violating the privacy stipulations under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California," writes SC Magazine's Dan Kaplan.

"Zhou, a licensed surgeon in China, was working as a researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine in 2003 when he began accessing medical records of his supervisor and co-workers after being notified that he soon would be fired for job performance issues, prosecutors said," Kaplan writes. "Over the next three weeks, he extended his snooping to mostly celebrity records. In total, he accessed the patient records system 323 times."

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