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Technology & Science

Mar. 27, 2012

Who’s hacked you now? Changes to state security breach statute

Steps a company must take to notify its affected customers once a security breach is discovered. By Peter H. Bales of Buchalter Nemer


By Peter H. Bales


It seems as though a week does not go by without a company reporting that its customers' personal information was either intentionally hacked or inadvertently exposed. In April 2011, Sony reported that hackers had stolen the names, birth dates, and possibly credit-card numbers of more than a 100 million users of its online videogames. In May 2011, Citigroup discovered that almost 400,000 credit-card accounts were hacked, resulting in $2.7 m...

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