The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) recently announced that it has begun notifying 168,000 patients of a data breach at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, which handles DHS’s billing and collections.
Sutherland has multiple offices and, according to the DHS release, its Torrance office was broken into on February 5 and computer equipment that held patients’ first and last names, Social Security numbers and certain medical and billing information, and may have included birthdates, addresses and diagnoses. “I’m not aware of another breach of this significance ever having occurred,” said Los Angeles County Assistant Auditor-Controller Robert Campbell, who oversees the county’s compliance with federal medical privacy regulations, to the Los Angeles Times.
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Los Angeles County DHS reveals 168,000 patient data breach
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That's terrible. They should offer a service where you can get a new SSN. The diagnosis leak is bad too - I wouldn't want my private medical info out there.
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