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Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keeping-the-secrets dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes "The Massachusetts Attorney General has been notified that financial data on 1,800 residents was exposed in a database breach linked to the CitySights NY sightseeing firm. Could this be the test case for enforcement of the State's nine month-old data privacy law? The leak of financial information on more than 100,000 customers of the CitySights sightseeing tour company could prove to be an early test of the nation's strongest data privacy law."

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  1. Re:Violation of Payment Card Industry regulations? by MichaelKristopeit315 · · Score: -1, Troll
    a limited use is still a use.

    did your mother name you "terraformer"? why do you cower behind a chosen pseudonym? what are you afraid of?

    you're completely pathetic.

  2. Re:Violation of Payment Card Industry regulations? by MichaelKristopeit314 · · Score: -1, Troll

    when "this vendor" = amazon.com, and amazon.com serves as an intermediary for nearly EVERY 3rd party vendor, then it's fairly ignorant and hypocritical to call the data "useless" when it alone can be used to process new charges nearly ubiquitously.