MA: Businesses still plagued by data breaches

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/12/07/daily48-Businesses-still-plagued-by-data-breaches.html

As businesses face a March deadline under an oft-delayed state law to 
protect customer and employee personal information, data breaches 
affecting Massachusetts residents remain strikingly frequent.

More than 1 million Massachusetts residents were hit by 807 data breach 
instances from Nov. 1, 2007, to Oct. 31 of this year, according to a 
report by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business 
Regulation, which monitors and enforces state data breach regulations. In 
the six weeks since, 59 additional breaches have been reported to the 
state.

Yet tight finances and the perceived high cost of compliance with 
technical aspects of the rules make full compliance with the impending 
deadline unlikely for at least some firms, business leaders say, clouding 
the full impact regulations may have on stemming the tide of breaches.

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