{"id":950,"date":"2018-04-27T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/04\/27\/1-state-suing-over-equifax-breach-the-facts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:56:00","slug":"1-state-suing-over-equifax-breach-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/1-state-suing-over-equifax-breach-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"+1 State Suing Over Equifax Breach. The Facts:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0West Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawsuit by the West Virginia Attorney General:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Violation of the the state\u2019s Consumer Credit and Protection Act \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The potential penalty:<\/strong>\u00a0$150,000 for each security breach and $5,000 for each violation of each of the 730,000 West Virginians affected by the Equifax breach<\/p>\n<p><strong>The statement from the WV Attorney General:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquifax\u2019s failure to secure consumers\u2019 personal information constitutes a shocking betrayal of public trust and an egregious violation of West Virginia consumer protection and data privacy laws,\u201d Morrisey said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/southeast\/2018\/04\/13\/486360.htm\">Insurance Journal |\u00a0West Virginia Sues Equifax Over Data Breach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0West Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawsuit by the West Virginia Attorney General:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Violation of the the state\u2019s Consumer Credit and Protection Act \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The potential penalty:<\/strong>\u00a0$150,000 for each security breach and $5,000 for each violation of each of the 730,000 West Virginians affected by the Equifax breach<\/p>\n<p><strong>The statement from the WV Attorney General:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquifax\u2019s failure to secure consumers\u2019 personal information constitutes a shocking betrayal of public trust and an egregious violation of West Virginia\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,9,37,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-fintech-finance-technology","category-legal-trend","category-notification","category-regulatory-enforcement","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}