It is not a matter of “if” but “when” an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach. Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including Social Security numbers, are acquired by unauthorized parties, and every employer maintains SSNs. At the same time, security breaches are rampant. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s Chronology of Data Breaches, more than 1,000 breaches, implicating more than 280 million records, have been publicly reported since January 2013.
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