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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey recently announced that her office will be launching a new online data breach reporting portal for companies to use to report data breaches to her office pursuant to the Massachusetts data breach notification statute.

The use of the portal is voluntary and does not relieve companies of their statutory obligations,…

Two Massachusetts accounting firms separately recently notified the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General and the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation of data breach incidents at their firms, resulting in the unauthorized access of their respective clients’ names, addresses and Social Security numbers.

The first accounting firm, King McNamara Moriarty LLP (KMM) discovered…