About 2.1 million of Massachusetts’s roughly 6.6 million residents had some form of personal data put at risk in 1,166 reported theft incidents. Attorney General Martha Coakley says a combination of hacking, errors by employees and growing body of data that is stored electronically by businesses will put that data at more risk over time. The AG says she is reviewing the stats to see whether the law, which imposes heavy fines for non-compliance by entities entrusted with this data, is cutting back on breaches.”]
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