A team of hackers financed by a “Saudi-based terrorist group” with headquarters in the Philippines was shut down this week after breaching the trunkline PBX of AT&T and other telecommunications companies, according to the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CDIG). 

California Rep. Mary Bono Mack has introduced a bill to create a national standard for data breach notification, and it is just one of many pieces of legislation now under review in both houses of Congress.