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The approaching deadline for New York State companies to comply with a stricter set of cybersecurity requirements is stoking a debate over whether the state’s tough rule could be a model for federal regulators. via Should N.Y.’s strict cybersecurity rule be a model for the country? | American Banker.
The Deloitte data breach, one of several hacks to hit the news in recent weeks, is being probed by the New York Attorney General. “We’re investigating the data breach and its circumstances,” says Amy Spitalnick, a spokesperson for New York AG Eric Schneiderman. via New York AG Looks Into Deloitte Data Breach
The New York Attorney General’s Office announced it received a record number of data breach notices in 2016. The office says it received 1,300 reported data breaches, that’s a 60 percent increase from the year before. The breaches exposed personal records of 1.6 million New Yorkers. via NY Attorney General: Record number of data breach […]
Amid a global spike in hacks of corporate computer systems, New York on Wednesday introduced drastically watered-down cybersecurity measures for banks. The revised cyber regulations no longer require banks to put a single executive in charge of cybersecurity — nor do they force companies to have a “program designed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and […]