State of Washington passes additional data breach measure
- Date: 20 April 2010
- Author: broyer
- Category: News
Falling in line with the states of Nevada and Massachusetts, the state of Washington has signed into law a supplemental data breach law. Among HB 1149’s provisions, businesses and card processors that fail to encrypt customer data or comply with industry processing standards, such as PCI DSS, and then subsequently suffer a breach, will be affected by the law.
A spokesperson for Governor Christine Gregoire said the reasoning behind the bill was that financial institutions would be more likely to issue new cards and account numbers to their customers if institutions had some type of legal remedy to recover the loses that result from taking such measures following a data breach.
The bill, passed unanimously by the Washington State Senate in early March, goes into effect on July 1, 2010.
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