Thread: liability for storing member passwords unencrypted?
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Old 12-11-2014, 09:48 AM  
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If your database is breached and you have more than 500 California residents in that database you are required to send notice of the breach to them under the California Data Security Breach Act...

Data Security Breach Reporting | State of California - Department of Justice - Kamala D. Harris Attorney General

Failure to do so means possible fines and being the defendant in a class action lawsuit.
Depending on what types of data were stolen. Granted it doesn't take much. I know of about 50 porn companies who never disclosed their data breaches to their members. Then again, I know of 50 more that don't even know they have been breached.


I miss the days of the CCBILL log.
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