Los Angeles County officials said Thursday that 170,200 additional victims have been identified in a theft of medical data from a county contractor's office. The total number of county patients affected now stands at 338,700.
The data was stored on eight computers taken in a February break-in at the Torrance office of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, a company that handles medical billing and collections.
The computers contained data that included patients' first and last names, Social Security numbers and certain medical and billing information. Birth dates, addresses and medical diagnoses may also have been included, officials said.
The county is reviewing Sutherland's security procedures. County spokesman David Sommers could not say how long the review would take. So far, three class action lawsuits have been filed against the county over the data breach, Sommers said.
