News about the long-term patient file snooping at the UCLA Medical Center were recently presented to the public.

According to James Duckstad, a former hospital employee, the issues on the breach of patient intimacy was a well-known concern ever since 1995 when a group of workers was fired for accesing some confidential records. He has also admitted to looking up files out of boredom.

"It was news throughout the whole hospital that employees were fired for screwing around in the computer. This was in 1995, and here we are 13 years later — and either they didn't follow the policy or people didn't take it that seriously," Duckstad said, according to the Associated Press.

The more recent events involved a group of the Medical Center’s employees and pop star Britney Spears’s medical records. Apparently, at least 50 UCLA staffers accessed her files on two different ocasions without any treatment-related interest.

Even though some may believe that the Center’s officials take the matter lightly, the AP quoted the head of the UCLA Hospital System, Dr. David Feinberg, saying that the breaches are being taken "extremely seriously. If we failed in the past, we will do everything we can to improve our systems."

Past such incidents were linked to pop star Mariah Carey, actress Farrah Fawcett, California first lady Maria Shriver, actors Tom Cruise and Dom DeLuise and many more, some of them being unfortunate enough to find significant medical information from their files in different tabloids across the country.