“A HIPAA-covered entity of the Southern District of California announced today that it is suing 15 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents for ‘an unlawful search and seizure conducted on March 11, 2011.’ Courthousenews.com reports that IRS agents have been accused of improperly accessing and taking 10 million medical records, such as the personal health records of all California state judges. The covered entity, called John Doe Company, states that the IRS agents stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans, including at least 1,000,000 Californians.”
http://healthitsecurity.com/2013/03/14/irs-facing-class-action-suit-for-medical-record-breach/
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