4 years ago Columbia Presbyterian settled with HHS for $4.8m following the release of 6600 records under HIPAA. At $705/case, this would mean $56.4T fine for this HIPAA violation.
damn neart real money.
Hospitals and health insurers maintain "liability" insurance to cover expenses and penalties regarding data breaches. Aside from meeting minimal safeguards required by the insurance underwriters, many entities consider this just a normal cost of doing business and make no great effort to secure their data bases. That costs more money than buying the insurance coverage. Welcome to the brave new world -- all your data are belong to us!
Unless you have a B key that is mismapped to T on your keyboard, you may want to get a new calculator.
705 x 80M = 56.4B