Torrance Memorial Medical Center Data Breach (2011)

During surgery at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, an anesthesiologist decorated a patient's face with stickers while the patient was unconscious giving her a black mustache and teardrops under her left eye and then a nurse's aide snapped her photo. The 2011 incident has prompted a state investigation and a civil lawsuit by the patient against the hospital and the doctor over the alleged breach of medical privacy. Photo was possibly posted on social media.