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Alaska

8 of 9 named instruments researched to a stage, across three of the ten areas of law we track: 8 in force. As of .

When each starts5 of 8 carry a date, 3 do not. Earlier is before 2014.
Before 2014: 3 instruments (3 in force) earlier 2014: 0 instruments 2015: 0 instruments ’15 2016: 0 instruments 2017: 0 instruments 2018: 0 instruments 2019: 0 instruments 2020: 0 instruments ’20 2021: 0 instruments 2022: 0 instruments 2023: 0 instruments 2024: 0 instruments 2025: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2026: 1 instrument (1 in force) ’26 today

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  1. AI law
  2. Privacy law 2
  3. Scraping law 3
  4. Cybersecurity law 3
  5. Communications law not researched
  6. Content moderation law not researched
  7. Product and AI liability law not researched
  8. Digital accessibility law not researched
  9. Age gating law
  10. Reuse law

Privacy law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (205 words)

Alaska has no comprehensive consumer-privacy statute. Article I, Section 22 of the Alaska Constitution recognizes an explicit right of privacy, but the provision's own text directs the legislature to implement it, and Alaska courts have read it as binding government action rather than private conduct, so a private business is not directly bound by it.

The Alaska Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), AS 45.48.010 to 45.48.090, is the state's operative private-sector privacy statute, a breach notification duty whose personal information definition covers only a name combined with a Social Security number, a driver's license or state ID number, or a financial account number and access code, with no biometric, genetic, or health category of any kind.

A PIPA violation by a non-governmental information collector is deemed an unfair or deceptive act or practice under Alaska's general Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, which arms a private plaintiff with an action for actual economic damages (capped at $500 under one of the two cross-referenced remedy provisions) in addition to a state civil penalty of up to $500 per unnotified resident, capped at $50,000 total.

A comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Act, HB 367, remains in committee as of this writing and has not passed either chamber.

Breach notification

Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, breach notification duty

Alaska Stat. Secs. 45.48.010-45.48.070official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A covered person (a person doing business, a governmental agency, or a person with more than 10 employees) that owns or licenses personal information on an Alaska resident must, after discovering or being notified of a breach of the security of the information system containing it, disclose the breach to each affected resident in the most expeditious time possible and without unreasonable delay.

Disclosure is not required if, after an appropriate investigation and written notice to the Alaska Attorney General, the covered person determines there is no reasonable likelihood of harm, a determination that must be documented and kept for five years.

Personal information covers only a name combined with a Social Security number, driver's license or state ID number, or a financial account, credit card, or debit card number with any needed access code; biometric, genetic, and health data are absent from the definition entirely, so a breach of biometric data alone triggers no notice duty under this Act.

What it requires

Enforcement supervision

Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, violations and enforcement

Alaska Stat. Sec. 45.48.080official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A governmental agency that violates the breach notification duty is liable to the state for a civil penalty of up to $500 per unnotified resident (capped at $50,000) and may be enjoined, enforced by the Department of Administration.

A non-governmental information collector's violation is instead deemed an unfair or deceptive act or practice under Alaska's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act (AS 45.50.471-45.50.561), which arms a private plaintiff, but this Act caps what that private plaintiff may recover: damages under the Act's general private and class action provision (AS 45.50.531, ordinarily treble damages or $500, whichever is greater) are limited here to actual economic damages not exceeding $500, and damages under the Act's fees-and-costs provision (AS 45.50.537) are limited to actual economic damages.

The non-governmental violator is also liable to the state for the same $500-per-resident, $50,000-total civil penalty as a governmental agency, though not the Act's ordinary civil penalties.

What it requires

Scraping law3 instruments, 3 in force

Research summary (225 words)

Alaska has no dedicated anti-scraping, terms-of-service, or database-right statute; the state's reach over unauthorized data collection runs through its general computer-crime chapter. Criminal use of a computer, AS 11.46.740, is a class C felony reaching a person who exceeds authorized access to a computer system and, as a result, obtains information concerning a person, obtains proprietary information, or obtains information otherwise available to the public only for a fee.

A lower-tier offense, criminal mischief in the fourth degree under AS 11.46.484(a)(3), makes mere unauthorized access to a computer or network a class A misdemeanor with no further act required. Unauthorized use of a computer system is also chargeable as theft of services under AS 11.46.200(a)(3), graded as a felony or misdemeanor under the general theft-degree statutes, AS 11.46.120 to 11.46.150, by the value of the services obtained.

Terms-of-service enforceability, database rights, and text-and-data-mining exceptions are federal-baseline only; Alaska adds nothing state-specific to any of them, and no Alaska statute or regulation assigns robots.txt independent legal weight. Alaska's Personal Information Protection Act reaches personal data a scraper collects; that duty is described in the privacy topic's own document for this jurisdiction rather than restated here.

Alaska's general Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, AS 45.50.471-45.50.561, does not name automated access or data collection in any subsection, so it adds nothing scraping-specific beyond the federal baseline.

Computer misuse

Criminal mischief in the fourth degree, unauthorized computer access

Alaska Stat. Sec. 11.46.484(a)(3)official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person commits criminal mischief in the fourth degree if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right, the person knowingly accesses a computer, computer system, computer program, computer network, or part of a computer system or network.

Unlike criminal use of a computer under AS 11.46.740, this offense requires no further act after the unauthorized access itself and no showing that the person obtained, damaged, or tampered with anything once inside. Criminal mischief in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.

The codified text's history note traces the section to a 1978 enactment, ch. 166, SLA 1978, with later amendments including ch. 18, SLA 1979 and ch. 143, SLA 1982, but the note states no day, and no day on which the section came into force has been located.

What it requires

Criminal use of a computer

Alaska Stat. Sec. 11.46.740official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person commits criminal use of a computer if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right, the person knowingly accesses, causes to be accessed, or exceeds the person's authorized access to a computer, computer system, computer program, or computer network and, as a result, obtains information concerning a person, obtains proprietary information of another person, obtains information that is only available to the public for a fee, introduces false information, or tampers with, disrupts, disables, or destroys a computer, computer system, program, or network.

The offense also reaches installing or using a keystroke logger to record another person's keystrokes without authorization. Criminal use of a computer is a class C felony, a single penalty tier with no lesser degree for a smaller-scale violation. The codified text's history note names ch. 79, Session Laws of Alaska 1984, as the enacting act, later amended by ch. 65, SLA 2000, and ch. 20, SLA 2011, but the note states no day, and no day on which the section came into force has been located.

What it requires

Theft of services, unauthorized use of a computer system

Alaska Stat. Sec. 11.46.200(a)(3)official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person commits theft of services if the person obtains the use of computer time, a computer system, a computer program, a computer network, or any part of a computer system or network, with reckless disregard that the use by that person is unauthorized.

Theft of services obtained through unauthorized computer use is graded under Alaska's general theft-degree statutes by the value of the services obtained: a class B felony at $25,000 or more, a class C felony from $750 up to $25,000, a class A misdemeanor from $250 up to $750, and a class B misdemeanor under $250.

The codified text's history note names ch. 166, SLA 1978, as the section's original enactment, amended by ch. 79, SLA 1984 and ch. 114, SLA 1984, but the note states no day, and no day on which the section came into force has been located.

What it requires

Cybersecurity law3 instruments, 3 in force

Research summary (681 words)

Alaska's private-sector security law is a single disposal-of-records duty rather than a general reasonable-security-procedures statute, a product-security statute, or a general vulnerability or incident-reporting statute.

Article 4 of the Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, AS 45.48.500 to 45.48.590, enacted by section 4 of Chapter 92, SLA 2008 (HB 65) and in effect since under that Act's own section 10, requires a business and a governmental agency alike to take all reasonable measures necessary to protect against unauthorized access to or use of records containing personal information when disposing of them, to adopt a written destruction-and-disposal policy, and to complete due diligence before contracting out record destruction to a third party.

This is a standalone security statute rather than a section of a comprehensive data-protection act, so it sits in this topic under the same Test 1 reasoning as Colorado's disposal duty, C.R.S. 6-1-713, even though its trigger is the same personal-information definition the Act's breach-notification duty uses. That breach-notification duty, AS 45.48.010 to 45.48.070, and its enforcement provision, AS 45.48.080, are this jurisdiction's privacy-topic row and are not repeated here.

No enacted Alaska statute was located, after a search of the full personal-information protection chapter and the surrounding titles of the Alaska Statutes, that sets security requirements a connected device or software product must meet before or after it reaches the market, comparable to California's, Oregon's, or the Cyber Resilience Act's product-security requirements; that reading rests on an affirmative search for connected-device, Internet of Things, manufacturer, vulnerability-disclosure, and critical-infrastructure terms across the statutes rather than on silence alone, so it is recorded as a researched absence.

No general private-sector duty to report a vulnerability or a security incident to an Alaska authority was located outside the insurance sector.

Alaska has enacted a sector-specific cyber-resilience regime that reaches a narrow class of digital-service operator: Senate Bill 134 (2024), codified as Article 2 of AS Title 21, Chapter 23, AS 21.23.240 to 21.23.399, adopts the substance of the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law, requiring a licensee of the Alaska Division of Insurance to conduct a risk assessment (AS 21.23.250) and develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive written information security program based on it (AS 21.23.260), and to investigate and, on specified thresholds and within three business days of determination, notify the director of a cybersecurity event (AS 21.23.270, 21.23.280), with provisions phased in across , , and per the Division of Insurance's own bulletin.

The regime creates no private cause of action (AS 21.23.240(b)) and exempts a licensee with fewer than ten employees and one already subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (AS 21.23.300). Its bound party is an insurance "licensee," and its program and notice duties are filed as rows of their own, flagged for an insurer; nothing here should be read as covering a software product simply because its developer happens to also hold an Alaska insurance license.

No dedicated regulator or civil penalty schedule enforces the disposal-of-records duty; a knowing violation is liable to the state for a civil penalty not to exceed $3,000 under AS 45.48.550, and, separately, an individual damaged by a violation may bring a civil action under AS 45.48.560 to enjoin further violations and recover actual economic damages, court costs, and full reasonable attorney fees, arming a private plaintiff in a way the insurance data-security regime does not.

Alaska Statutes 21.23.250 and 21.23.260 require each licensee of the Division of Insurance to conduct a risk assessment and maintain a comprehensive written information security program based on it, from . Alaska Statutes 21.23.270 and 21.23.280 require a licensee to investigate a cybersecurity event and to notify the director not later than three business days after determining that one has occurred where the section's conditions are met.

Alaska Statutes 42.05.765 requires all users, owners and operators of an interconnected electric energy transmission network served by an electric reliability organization to comply with the reliability standards in a tariff the Regulatory Commission of Alaska approves, and provides that such a standard may provide for protection from a cybersecurity incident.

Sector security regimes

Insurance Data Security, licensee risk assessment and information security program

Alaska Stat. secs. 21.23.250 and 21.23.260 (Insurance Data Security)Text of Alaska Statutes 21.23.240 to 21.23.399, the Insurance Data Security article, published by the Alaska State Legislature

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A licensee must conduct a risk assessment commensurate with its size and complexity and the nature and scope of its activities, to evaluate the security and confidentiality of the nonpublic information it uses or controls. A licensee must develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive written information security program based on that risk assessment.

The program must contain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of nonpublic information and the security of the licensee's information system. A licensee must establish a written incident response plan designed to promptly respond to, and recover from, a cybersecurity event that compromises the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of nonpublic information in its possession or its information systems.

A licensee must require a third-party service provider that has access to or holds nonpublic information to notify the licensee as soon as possible, and not later than 10 business days, after determining that the provider has experienced a cybersecurity event involving nonpublic information associated with a consumer.

The duties to exercise due diligence in selecting a third-party service provider and to require it to protect the information systems and nonpublic information it can access, AS 21.23.260(c)(7) and (8), take effect . A licensee that is an insurer domiciled in Alaska must submit to the director by February 15 of each year a written statement certifying that the insurer complies with AS 21.23.250 and 21.23.260.

AS 21.23.250 and 21.23.260 do not apply to a licensee, including an independent contractor, with fewer than 10 employees. The article does not apply to a licensee subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 that maintains and complies with a program under that Act and certifies this to the director in writing. A person who violates the article is subject to the penalties provided under AS 21.27.440.

What it requires

Security baseline statutes

Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, disposal of records duty

Alaska Stat. Secs. 45.48.500-45.48.590official Alaska Statutes text, Alaska State Legislature

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A business and a governmental agency that disposes of records containing personal information on an Alaska resident must take all reasonable measures necessary to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the records. The business or governmental agency must also adopt written policies and procedures relating to the adequate destruction and proper disposal of those records.

Permitted measures include burning, pulverizing, or shredding paper documents, and destroying or erasing electronic and nonpaper media, so that the personal information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed.

Where a business or governmental agency instead contracts with a third party engaged in the business of record destruction, it must first complete due diligence, ordinarily reviewing an independent audit of the third party's operations, checking references or trade-association certification, or reviewing the third party's own information security policies and procedures.

It is not liable for the disposal once it has relinquished control of the records to that third party or to the individual to whom the records pertain.

A business is exempt if it is subject to and complying with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act, or if the manner of its disposal is subject to and complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act's disposal rule, 15 U.S.C. 1681w. A business or governmental agency is also exempt to the extent federal law requires a manner of disposal the Alaska duty does not permit. A knowing violation is liable to the state for a civil penalty not to exceed $3,000.

Separately, an individual damaged by a violation may bring a civil action to enjoin further violations and recover actual economic damages, court costs, and full reasonable attorney fees. This duty is distinct from the Act's breach-notification duty, AS 45.48.010 to 45.48.070, which is this jurisdiction's privacy-topic row.

What it requires

Vulnerability and incident reporting

Insurance Data Security, investigation and notification of a cybersecurity event

Alaska Stat. secs. 21.23.270 and 21.23.280 (Insurance Data Security)Text of Alaska Statutes 21.23.240 to 21.23.399, the Insurance Data Security article, published by the Alaska State Legislature

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A licensee that becomes aware that a cybersecurity event has or may have occurred must promptly investigate it, or have an outside vendor or third-party service provider designated to act for it do so. A licensee must keep records concerning all cybersecurity events for at least five years from the date of the event and produce them at the request of the director.

A licensee must notify the director as soon as possible and not later than three business days after it determines that a cybersecurity event has occurred, unless a federal law enforcement official instructs it not to distribute information about the event.

The duty applies if the licensee is an insurer domiciled in Alaska, is an insurance producer whose home state is Alaska, or reasonably believes the event involves the nonpublic information of 250 or more consumers residing in Alaska and either affects the licensee and must be reported to a government agency under state or federal law or has a reasonable likelihood of materially harming an Alaska consumer or a material part of the licensee's normal operation.

The notice must include, to the greatest extent possible and in the form and format the director prescribes, the date of the event, how nonpublic information was exposed, how the event was discovered, the number of consumers affected and a contact person, among other listed items. After giving notice, the licensee must update and supplement the information it provided, in the form, format and frequency the director prescribes.

A licensee that is required to notify the director and is also required to give notice under the Alaska Personal Information Protection Act must give the director a copy of the notice sent to consumers. Where a cybersecurity event affects an information system maintained by a third-party service provider, the licensee's time to notify the director begins the day after the provider notifies it or the day after it has actual knowledge of the event, whichever is earlier.

A licensee acting as an assuming insurer that determines that a cybersecurity event has occurred must notify its affected ceding insurers and the insurance supervisory official of its state of domicile not later than three business days after the determination, where the event involves nonpublic information it uses or controls and it has no direct contractual relationship with an affected consumer.

A licensee that is an insurer must notify each independent insurance producer of record of an affected consumer as soon as possible, in the form and format the director prescribes, if the consumer accessed the insurer's services through that producer and the insurer has the current producer of record information.

The article does not apply to a licensee subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 that maintains and complies with a program under that Act and certifies this to the director in writing. A person who violates the article is subject to the penalties provided under AS 21.27.440.

What it requires

Where nothing was found3 areas of law

These areas of law were researched here and no instrument was recorded. Each finding says what the research checked, as of the date under it. It describes our search, not a guarantee that no such law exists.

AI law

Alaska has not enacted an AI-transparency, output-labeling, or bot-disclosure statute as of this writing. Alaska prohibits distributing and possessing generated obscene child sexual abuse material, which depicts a child who, by manipulation, creation, or modification, appears to be engaged in conduct described in AS 11.41.455, under AS 11.61.121 and 11.61.122. Those sections took effect .

Alaska's general Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, AS 45.50.471-45.50.561, is not AI-specific and adds nothing to this topic beyond the federal baseline.

As of .

Age gating law

Alaska has no age verification, social media minor access, app store, or design code law in effect as of July 2026. A 2024 bill combining pornography age verification with a social media ban for users under 14 passed the House but died in a Senate committee.

A 2026 bill on AI generated child sexual abuse material originally added social media age verification and parental consent requirements after passing the House unanimously, but a Senate committee stripped those provisions in April 2026 over First Amendment and single subject concerns, leaving only the criminal AI content provisions moving forward.

As of .

Reuse law

Alaska has no press-publisher neighbouring right, platform-to-publisher bargaining code, hot-news misappropriation statute, or text-and-data-mining opt-out specific to news content; the general federal copyright, fair-use, and trade-secret baseline applies unchanged.

Alaska's general consumer-protection statute, the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act (AS 45.50.471-45.50.561), exempts a newspaper, periodical, or broadcast publisher's own dissemination of advertising from liability where the publisher lacks knowledge of its deceptive character, an ordinary media exemption rather than any aggregation-specific rule, and it names no aggregator or platform.

Alaska's Uniform Trade Secrets Act, AS 45.50.910 and following, is the state's only codified misappropriation doctrine and is framed around trade secrets rather than the hot-news, time-sensitive-fact misappropriation line of cases. Alaska's criminal code (Title 11) and code of civil procedure (Title 9) contain no press-publisher right, bargaining mandate, or aggregation-specific cause of action.

As of .

Case law

  • No current case law for Alaska AI law
  • No current case law for Alaska privacy law
  • No current case law for Alaska scraping law
  • No current case law for Alaska cybersecurity law
  • No current case law for Alaska communications law
  • No current case law for Alaska content moderation law
  • No current case law for Alaska product and AI liability law
  • No current case law for Alaska digital accessibility law
  • No current case law for Alaska age gating law
  • No current case law for Alaska reuse law

Reporting clocks that run here18 instruments

The instruments whose obligation lines set a deadline for reporting an incident, a vulnerability or a personal-data breach, each deadline read from the sentence that carries it and listed shortest first. The law of Alaska comes first, then the law of the bodies above it that applies here.

Each flag is one law, and a link to it. Read down the scale: the clocks document's time axis, with the empty stretches shortened so the deadlines sit close. Flags on one line set the same duty at the same deadline, and the laws behind them are named to the right, with what each clock counts from.

1 hour
Incident notificationsecurity law
4 hours
Incident notificationsecurity law
8 hours
Incident notificationsecurity law
36 hours
3 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
4 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
5 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
7 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
30 days
Incident notificationsecurity law
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
60 days
Breach notificationprivacy law
The deadlines above on one time axis, shortest at the top. The axis keeps its order and, between neighbors, its proportion, but a stretch with no deadline on it is shortened, so the hour marks on the left are what say how far apart two stations really are. Beside each action, the laws that set it, what each counts from, and a status where the law is not yet in force. The List tab has the same data in full, with the sentences.

The law of Alaska

3 business days

Insurance Data Security, investigation and notification of a cybersecurity event

Alaska Stat. secs. 21.23.270 and 21.23.280 (Insurance Data Security)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify the director as soon as possible and not later than three business days after you determine that a cybersecurity event has occurred, unless a federal law enforcement official instructs you not to distribute information about it, in the form and format the director prescribes, with the date of the event, how nonpublic information was exposed, how the event was discovered, the number of Alaska consumers affected, the results of your internal review, your remediation efforts, your privacy policy and a contact person, among the other items listed in the section.

If the event is in an information system a third-party service provider maintains, count your three business days from the day after the provider notifies you or the day after you have actual knowledge of the event, whichever is earlier, unless the provider notifies the director itself.

If you are an assuming insurer without a direct contractual relationship with an affected consumer, notify your affected ceding insurers and the insurance supervisory official of your state of domicile not later than three business days after you determine that a cybersecurity event has occurred, or after your third-party service provider notifies you of one.

If you are an insurer, notify each independent insurance producer of record of an affected consumer as soon as possible, in the form and format the director prescribes, where the consumer accessed your services through that producer and you have the current producer of record information.

The law of the United States, which applies in Alaska

1 hour4 hours8 hours24 hours

NRC cyber security event notifications by nuclear power plant licensees

NRC cyber security event notifications, 10 CFR 73.77security law, in force since

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Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center via the Emergency Notification System within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted safety-related or important-to-safety functions, security functions, or emergency preparedness functions (including offsite communications), or that compromised support systems and equipment resulting in adverse impacts to those functions.

Also notify within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted the safety, security, and emergency preparedness functions performed by digital assets described in 10 CFR 73.77(a)(1)(ii).

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within four hours after discovery of a cyberattack that could have caused such an adverse impact, after discovery of a suspected or actual cyberattack initiated by personnel with physical or electronic access to the systems in scope, or after notifying a local, State, or other Federal agency of an event related to your cyber security program that does not otherwise require notification.

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within eight hours after receipt or collection of information regarding observed behavior, activities, or statements that may indicate intelligence gathering or pre-operational planning related to a cyberattack against the systems in scope.

Use the site corrective action program to record vulnerabilities, weaknesses, failures and deficiencies in your cyber security program, and the notifications you make, within twenty-four hours of their discovery.

24 hours72 hours

Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA)

6 U.S.C. 681-681g (CIRCIA)security law, enacted, not yet in force

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Once the final rule takes effect, report a covered cyber incident to the Agency not later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes that the covered cyber incident has occurred.

Once the final rule takes effect, report a ransom payment to the Agency not later than 24 hours after your organization makes the payment, even where the underlying ransomware attack is not itself a covered cyber incident.

Once the final rule takes effect, promptly submit an update to a previously submitted covered cyber incident report whenever substantial new or different information becomes available or a ransom payment is later made, continuing until your organization notifies the Agency that the incident has concluded and been fully mitigated and resolved, and preserve data relevant to the incident or payment under the procedures the final rule establishes.

24 hours5 business days30 days

SEC Regulation SCI: notification of SCI events to the Commission and to members

SEC Regulation SCI SCI event notices, 17 CFR 242.1002(b) and (c)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Upon any responsible SCI personnel having a reasonable basis to conclude that an SCI event has occurred, begin appropriate corrective action and notify the Commission of the SCI event immediately.

Within 24 hours of that conclusion, submit a written notification to the Commission, made on a good faith, best efforts basis, that describes the SCI event and the systems affected and, to the extent available, your assessment of the market participants potentially affected, the potential impact on the market, and the steps you have taken, are taking or plan to take.

If the SCI event is resolved and the investigation closed within 30 calendar days, submit a final written notification within five business days after resolution. If not, submit an interim written notification within 30 calendar days after the event, and a final one within five business days after resolution and closure.

36 hours

Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers

12 CFR Part 53 (OCC); 12 CFR Part 225, Subpart N (Federal Reserve Board); 12 CFR Part 304, Subpart C (FDIC)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a banking organization, notify your primary federal banking regulator, the OCC, the Federal Reserve Board, or the FDIC, whichever supervises it, about a notification incident, as soon as possible and no later than 36 hours after your organization determines that a notification incident has occurred.

A notification incident is the subset of computer-security incidents that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, your ability to serve customers, a business line, or an operation whose failure would threaten the financial stability of the United States, so a computer-security incident that falls short of that threshold does not by itself start this clock.

If your organization is a bank service provider, notify at least one bank-designated point of contact at each affected banking organization customer as soon as possible after your organization determines that it has experienced a computer-security incident that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, covered services provided to that banking organization for a period of four hours or more.

This duty carries a standard, as soon as possible, rather than a fixed number of hours to notify by, and that disruption threshold is what engages the duty rather than a period to notify within.

72 hours30 days

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026

S. 5576, 119th Congressfrontier-model AI law, proposed

The sentence the clocks are read from

If you are a developer or provider of a frontier AI model, or an operator of critical infrastructure that uses an AI model to manage industrial control systems or other operational technologies, report any confirmed AI safety incident or AI security incident within 30 days of confirmation, and within 72 hours if the incident poses an imminent threat to national security, critical infrastructure or public safety.

72 hours

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements for Federally Insured Credit Unions

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements, 12 CFR 748.1(c)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a federally insured credit union, notify the NCUA-designated point of contact of a reportable cyber incident by email, telephone, or another method the NCUA prescribes, so that the NCUA receives the notification as soon as possible and no later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes it has experienced a reportable cyber incident.

Where the reportable cyber incident is a disruption of business operations or unauthorized access to sensitive data facilitated through, or caused by, a compromise of a credit union service organization, cloud service provider, or other third-party data hosting provider, or by a supply chain compromise, the NCUA must receive the notification within 72 hours of your organization being notified by the third party if that is sooner.

72 hours30 days

Regulation S-P: incident response program and customer breach notice

17 CFR 248.30(a)(3) to (a)(5)privacy law, in force since

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Send the notice as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days, after becoming aware that unauthorized access to or use of customer information has occurred or is reasonably likely to have occurred, delaying it only for the period the United States Attorney General specifies where the Attorney General determines that notice poses a substantial risk to national security or public safety (17 CFR 248.30(a)(4)(iii)).

Maintain written policies and procedures reasonably designed to require oversight, including through due diligence and monitoring, of service providers, including that a service provider notify you as soon as possible, and no later than 72 hours, after becoming aware of a breach in security resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system it maintains (17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)(i)).

72 hours

SEC Regulation S-P: service provider oversight and 72-hour breach notice to the covered institution

SEC Regulation S-P service provider oversight and notice, 17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)security law, in force

The sentence the clocks are read from

Make those policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that each service provider takes appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer information, and to notify you as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours after becoming aware that a breach in security has occurred resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system the service provider maintains.

4 business days

SEC Cybersecurity Risk Management, Governance, and Incident Disclosure (Regulation S-K Item 106; Form 8-K Item 1.05)

17 CFR 229.106; 17 CFR 249.308 (Form 8-K Item 1.05)security law, in force since

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If your organization is an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting company, determine, without unreasonable delay after you discover a cybersecurity incident, whether the incident is material, and if it is, file a Form 8-K under Item 1.05 within four business days after you make that determination.

If the information called for in Item 1.05 is not determined or is unavailable when you file, state that in the filing and file an amendment to the Form 8-K within four business days after you determine it or it becomes available.

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FCC CPNI breach notification rule

47 CFR 64.2011privacy law, in force

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After you reasonably determine that a breach of your customers' CPNI has occurred, electronically notify the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the central reporting facility as soon as practicable, and in no event later than seven business days (47 CFR 64.2011(b)).

Do not notify customers or disclose the breach where the relevant investigating agency directs you in writing not to, for an initial period of up to 30 days that the agency may extend (47 CFR 64.2011(b)(3)).

60 days

FTC Health Breach Notification Rule

16 CFR Part 318privacy law, in force since

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If you are a vendor of personal health records (an entity that offers or maintains an electronic record of health information that can draw information from multiple sources and is managed, shared and controlled by or primarily for the individual) or a PHR related entity, notify each affected individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, in plain language and without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 calendar days after you discover a breach of security of unsecured PHR identifiable health information.

Notify prominent media outlets serving a State or jurisdiction, without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach, when the unsecured PHR identifiable health information of 500 or more of its residents is, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach.

If you are a third party service provider, notify the official designated in a written contract by the vendor of personal health records or PHR related entity you serve (or else a senior official of that vendor or entity), without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach; identify each customer of that vendor or entity whose unsecured PHR identifiable health information has been, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach; and obtain acknowledgment that the notice was received.

60 days

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

45 CFR Part 164, Subpart D (Sections 164.400-164.414)privacy law, in force since

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Notify affected individuals without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovering a breach of unsecured protected health information.

For a breach of unsecured protected health information involving more than 500 residents of a State or jurisdiction, notify prominent media outlets serving that State or jurisdiction without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

If you are a business associate, notify the covered entity of a breach of unsecured protected health information without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

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CFTC system safeguards: prompt notice to Commission staff of cyber security incidents and targeted threats

CFTC system safeguards notices, 17 CFR 39.18(g), 38.1051(e) and 37.1401(e)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a derivatives clearing organization, notify staff of the Division of Clearing and Risk promptly of any hardware or software malfunction, security incident, or targeted threat that materially impairs, or creates a significant likelihood of material impairment of, automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, and of any activation of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a designated contract market, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and significant systems malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a swap execution facility, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and material system malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

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Coast Guard Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System: reportable cyber incidents

Coast Guard reportable cyber incident reporting, 33 CFR 101.620(b)(7) and 101.615security law, in force since

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Evidence of sabotage, subversive activity, or an actual or threatened cyber incident involving or endangering any vessel, harbor, port, or waterfront facility must be reported immediately to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (for any cyber incident), and the Captain of the Port, or to their respective representatives.

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