Employee Suing Hospital Over Alleged HIV Records Leak

An employee at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, claiming a breach led to co-workers learning of her HIV status, nj.com reports.

The lawsuit states the woman has been a housekeeping aide at the hospital since 1988, and was hospitalized in 2013. This is when the hospital created a record of her HIV-positive status, according to the report.

A year later, she learned that an employee had accessed her records and told other co-workers of her medical status, according to the report. The hospital allegedly informed the woman two months after the breach.

Read more at nj.com.