Watch out Florida businesses! The Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 became law this month, and it will impact how you handle data breaches. In recent years, data breaches have almost become commonplace.

Most recently, Target’s massive data breach—affecting over 70 million credit and debit card accounts. The frequency of data breaches and the havoc they create necessitated this response from the Florida Legislature and the Florida attorney general for the protection of Florida consumers.