Texas Cybersecurity Update
If you’re in Texas, you’ll want to take note of a recent law that took effect on September 1, 2021. Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 3746 that has amended the state’s data breach notification law.
The original law, Business and Commerce Code 521.053 established requirements for businesses around “any breach of system security” that they were alerted to or discovered on their own to notify within 60 days, any individual who had sensitive personal information that was or is reasonably believed to have been compromised in the breach. If the breach involves at least 250 Texas residents, the Texas Attorney General must also be notified within 60 days.