Ashden Fein, Micaela McMurrough, Caleb Skeath, Robert Huffman, John Webster Leslie, and Shayan Karbassi of Covington and Burling write: On March 27, 2024, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (“CISA”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) related to the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (“CIRCIA”) was released on the Federal Register website. …
Category: Legislation
Utah Enacts Amendments to State Breach Notification Law
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 19, 2024, Utah’s Governor Spencer J. Cox signed Senate Bill (SB) 98 (the “Bill”), Online Data Security and Privacy Amendments, into law. The Bill amends the Protection of Personal Information Act (§13-44-101 et seq) and the Utah Technology Governance Act in the Utah Government Operations Code (§63A-16-1101 et seq). The Utah Technology Governance…
Treasury Sanctions China-Linked Hackers for Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has served as cover for multiple malicious cyber operations. OFAC is also designating Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, two Chinese nationals affiliated with Wuhan XRZ,for…
FCC Updated Data Breach Notification Rules Go into Effect Despite Challenges
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes that on March 13, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission’s updates to the FCC data breach notification rules (the “Rules”) went into effect despite legal challenges. The rules were adopted in December 2023 pursuant to an FCC Report and Order (the “Order”). Their previous blog post explained the Rules: Pursuant to the…
41 State Attorneys General tell Meta to do better in preventing and mitigating account takeovers
A coalition of state attorneys general have sent a letter to Meta asking them to do more to help users whose accounts have been hacked or taken over. The letter to Meta’s Chief Legal Officer begins: Dear Ms. Newstead: We, the undersigned attorneys general (the “State AGs”), write to request immediate action to address the…
Three recent breach disclosures remind us how seldom timely breach notification is enforced under HITECH
Three recent data breach disclosures involving patient data all exceeded HIPAA’s 60-day deadline to notify HHS and individuals. Yakima Valley Radiology A breach involving the Washington state radiology service was added to Karakurt’s leak site in November 2023 with a listing claiming — without proof — that they had acquired 9.31 GB of files with financial…