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Stanford's a little more than a college. There have been at least 5 HIPAA breaches, with at least 70k people's information compromised.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/stanford-reports-fifth-...



To go a little further - at a glance, it's not clear if they've been fined yet or not, but either way there's soft costs to all of this - being in the news in a negative light, some patients will go elsewhere, their insurance premiums are going to go up as a result of the breaches, etc etc.




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