Massachusetts Data Privacy Law Changes; Heartland Payment Systems Breach
Posted by Andy Gregory on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 @ 09:29 AM
The state filed some amendments to the new data privacy regulations this week, and it appears that they have loosened the scope a bit. I have yet to fully go over the entire addendum, but our friends at Associated Industries of MA say that the implementation date has been pushed out again to March of '09, and they have incorporated some of the FTC's standards under Gramm Leach Bliley. More to come on that...
Heartland Payment Systems reported this week that they had a breach in their system, which stores over 100 million records containing social security numbers among others. So much for new security standards. As I always have said, cyber criminals are hard working, creative types that would make great employees for legitimate businesses!