According to Barbara Anthony, head of the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, 5,000,000 residents of the Commonwealth have been affect by data breaches since October 2007, when the state’s data breach notification law was enacted.
According to a Herald report, the Office gets about fifty breach notifications each month. In all, the Office has received approximately 2,200 data breach notification letters reporting lost or stolen data since the law was enacted.
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