2015 is already the year of the healthcare hack — and it's only going to get worse

Last year, the fallout from a string of breaches at major retailers like Target and Home Depot had consumers on edge. But 2015 is shaping up to be the year consumers should be taking a closer look at who is guarding their health information. Data about more than 120 million people has been compromised in more than 1,100 separate breaches at organizations handling protected health data since 2009, according to Department of Health and Human Services data reviewed by The Washington Post. "That's a third of the U.S. population -- this really should be a wake-up call," said Deborah Peel, the executive director of Patient Privacy Rights.