With the increase in the sophistication of cyberterrorists, our world seems to get scarier and scarier each year. In the health-care sector, we have seen Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, security breaches, resulting in payments of fines in the amount of more than $23.5 million in 2016, up from $7 million or $8 million per year in years past. Certainly much of the recent uptick in HIPAA fines and penalties comes from cyberattacks and/or stolen protected health information at the hands of cybercriminals or outright thieves.

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