Hackers recently attacked the IRS, breaking into its system to steal data on 104,000 taxpayers and collecting up to $50 million in refunds. If that wasn't painful enough for most Americans to think about, add in the pain from recent breaches of health care data that exposed the personal and health data of millions.
Now the question is not "whose data has been exposed?" but "whose data hasn't been exposed, yet?"
In fact, the health care industry is experiencing a surge in data breaches, security incidents, and criminal attacks — exposing millions of patients and their medical records — according to the latest Ponemon Institute study.
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