With over 680 security breaches reported so far in 2016,1 more employers are being forced to confront the issue of how to respond to a breach. All states except Alabama, North Dakota and New Mexico now require notification when information commonly maintained by employers, such as Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers, is compromised. While many of these breach notification laws were initially modeled after California’s pioneering 2002 breach notification statute, more and more states are amending their notice laws in different ways, increasing the complexity of security incident response for multi-state employers.
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