Missouri has become the 45th state to enact data breach notification legislation, leaving 5 states left. Governor Jay Nixon signed House Bill 62 into law on July 9, 2009. The new law goes into effect on August 28, 2009. Of course, the legislation has an “encrypted get out of jail free card” like many others, but the law contains a rather broad definition of personal information including certain uses of first and last name with other standard PII such as SSN and account numbers. Some other interesting points are that if an entity must notify more than 1000 residents, it must notify the Missouri Attorney General’s office and the nationwide consumer reporting agencies of the breach and Civil penalties for violating the statute may reach up to $150,000 per breach of the security of the system.
$150k isn’t much.
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