Several employees of the UCLA Medical Center will be fired or disciplined for looking at Britney Spears’ confidential medical records, while the singer was hospitalized in the psychiatric section of the center, Reuters informs.

The UCLA center assured the public that all staff must sign confidentiality agreements and that the hospital did its best to protect the patients’ privacy.

“When possible confidentiality breaches arise, UCLA immediately launches an investigation and appropriate disciplinary action would then be initiated," said the statement. "Due to the confidential nature of both patient and personnel issues, no further information is available.”

The medical center declared that it would fire 13 employees, of which none are doctors, discipline six others, and possibly take action against six physicians for accessing the hospital’s computer in order to search through Spears’ medical records.

A similar situation happened at Santa Monica UCLA medical center in September 2005, when several employees were caught snooping at Britney’s records, after she gave birth to her first son, Sean Preston.

"It's not only surprising, it's very frustrating and it's very disappointing," said Jeri Simpson, the Santa Monica hospital's director of human resources, according to The Los Angeles Times.

"I feel like we do everything that we possibly can to ensure the privacy of our patients and I know we feel horrible that it happened again."

Simpson also insisted that many celebrities were treated in their hospital and such problems had never occurred before.

Prying into a patient’s confidential records is also considered a violation of state and federal laws concerning medical privacy. The fines for this kind of violation can reach $250,000.