Perspective
Oct. 23, 2014
Congress drags feet as hackers run amuck
The interests of consumers are not being adequately protected by the current patchwork of industry-specific federal laws and generally applicable state data protection and/or notification laws. By Peter J. Toren
In the past year, hackers have been able to gain access to several large U.S. corporations across a wide range of industries. Last November, for example, shortly before Thanksgiving and just in time for the Christmas season, hackers installed malware in Target's security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company's 1,797 U.S. stores. The malware was designed to capture a shopper's credit card number, ...
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