The woman, who has not been identified in the media, was upset and embarrassed when her STI test results were posted onto a Facebook group entitled: ‘Team No Hoes.’
According to BuzzFeed, over 2,200 people saw the results and found out her condition.
Facebook users labelled her a ‘slut’ after clicking on the image of the results.
According to reports, two hospital workers at University of Cincinnati Medical Centre were responsible for leaking the confidential information to the Facebook site.
As a result of the shocking incident, the woman is now suing the hospital for $25,000 in damages.
Her lawyer, Mike Allen, told WLWT news: ‘She was absolutely devastated. That is the most private of private medical information that was posted on Facebook. To have that kind of information in the public domain when it is clearly legally to be protected, that’s a problem and that’s a problem that UC’s responsible for.’
‘For an employee of the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre to post that information on a social media device that millions of people have access to, it's above and beyond the law and that's why we feel that they're responsible,’ he continued.
The hospital in question has declined to comment on the incident.