The state’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation is hoping to make it easier for businesses and individuals to notify state regulators in the event of a data breach.

The OCA today announced it was rolling out an electronic data breach submission portal that should simplify at least some of the notification process when a business experiences a data breach.

The Massachusetts Data Security Law requires any entity that keeps a consumer’s personal information to notify affected Massachusetts residents, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Attorney General’s Office anytime personal information is accidentally or intentionally compromised, the agency said in its announcement.

“Our office wanted to streamline the reporting process while still collecting the information from businesses that the law requires. This new portal accomplishes that, making it administratively more efficient for our office and providing uniformity for those entities that are required to notify us of data breaches,” Undersecretary John Chapman said in a statement.

People and businesses can still notify the office via mail and are still obligated to separately notify the Attorney General and affected Bay State residents.

The portal does not prohibit entities from notifying the office via mail and the submission does not relieve businesses of their legal obligation to separately notify the Attorney General’s Office and affected Massachusetts residents.