Unauthorized access cause of Tampa General Hospital breach

An employee at Tampa General Hospital accessed the cover sheets of 675 patients without authorization, compromising their personal information, reports Tampa Bay Times.

The printed cover sheets, which included patient names, addresses, birth dates, insurers’ diagnoses and Social Security numbers, have not been recovered. The patients all were scheduled for surgical procedures between Oct. 3, 2011 and Aug. 7, 2014.

The hospital has since fired the employee, who was a member of the support staff, according to the article.

Also, the police have arrested one person unrelated to the hospital who had four of the face sheets with him, reports 10News.

The hospital has given patients whose Social Security numbers were accessed a one-year subscription to credit monitoring services.