Many companies have been the focus of cyberattacks in the last few months including Target, Home Depot, and Jimmy Johns.  The most concerning was when news broke of when hackers targeted J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. along with 12 other financial service companies.  Now State Attorney Generals are discussing the possibility of creating a multistate group to examine the breaches and what can be done to combat future breaches of personal information.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about this and the states planning to take action.  Below are some of the highlights about the states and their actions.  If you want to read the full article, click here.

Offices of attorneys general including those in California, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Illinois are in discussions to join together and examine whether J.P. Morgan, and possibly other financial institutions, followed state disclosure laws on data breaches….

At least two state attorneys general– Connecticut and Illinois–are investigating J.P. Morgan for its handling of a cyberattack this summer that compromised the customer contact information of about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin said, in a Monday news release, his office sent a letter to J.P. Morgan asking for additional information about the breach and if it would impact Rhode Island consumers. “The scope of this breach is of great concern,” he said in the news release.

The office of Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has been in contact with the bank regarding the cyberattack since the bank’s disclosure earlier this year, a spokeswoman for the attorney general said Friday. She declined to provide further detail, saying it was a pending matter.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is also looking into the breach. In a statement Friday, Ms. Madigan said that the cyberattack is among the most “troubling” breaches because it shows how vulnerable U.S. institutions and their databases are.