Law status
Verified comprehensive law
Yes - Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
- Official name / citation
- Va. Code §§ 59.1-575 to 59.1-585 (Title 59.1, ch. 53)
- Status / effective date
- Codified and in force per the official Virginia Code site
- Principal enforcer
- Virginia Attorney General (exclusive enforcement)
Direct attached-library attribution
0 cases · $0
These totals are assigned solely by the attachment’s state heading. Shared multistate totals are not allocated in full to every state.
The attached library does not enumerate participant-level allocations for every multistate matter; shared settlement totals are presented once at the national level and are not duplicated into state totals.
Official law sources
Other generally applicable PII law
n.a.
Public enforcement context
Tier 1*
Blackbaud, Inc.
$49.5 million total payment to the states (do not infer a state share unless quoted below) · October 5, 2023
The AGs alleged Blackbaud failed to implement reasonable data security and to remediate known gaps before a 2020 ransomware incident, and failed to give customers timely, complete or accurate breach information. Virginia is named among the participating jurisdictions on the Illinois AG page; the Virginia share is not stated there.
Legal basis: State consumer protection laws, state breach-notification laws and HIPAA (as alleged by the AGs)
Mapped control outcomes
1 personal data inventory/data map; 2 sensitive-data discovery; 3 downstream copy tracking; 8 breach blast-radius analysis; 9 retention/minimization; 10 regulator audit evidence
Kestryl can evidence where regulated personal data actually resides across structured stores and unstructured attachments/images, produce audit rows and evidence packs showing when each location was discovered and reviewed, and apply structured-data remediation modes (mask, vault, strip) to reduce exposure. It does not alter source attachments or documents, and its output is technical evidence supporting controls, not proof of legal compliance.
Educational information, not legal advice. The supplied snapshot is dated August 25, 2026; confirm current law, applicability, exceptions, official status, and reporting decisions with qualified counsel and the relevant authority.