Vincent Manancourt reports: Your order history. Your credit card information. Even your intimate health data. Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company’s efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company’s security shortfalls…
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FBI, Michigan State Police investigating cyber attack on Saginaw Township schools
Terry Camp reports: Law enforcement agencies are investigating a cyber attack at Saginaw Township Community Schools. School administrators noticed the issue Sunday. The FBI and Michigan State Police joined the investigation later in the week. “It could have been a whole lot worse, but it certainly has been disruptive in an already disruptive year,” says…
Former Air Force Contractor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Taking 2,500 Pages of Classified Information
WASHINGTON – A former contractor with the U.S. Air Force pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio today to illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents. Izaak Vincent Kemp, 35, of Fairborn, was charged on Jan. 25, 2021, by a Bill of Information. According to court documents, Kemp was employed…
GA: Metro school district working on cybersecurity after reports of hacking
Mike Petchenik reports: The DeKalb County School District is making changes to student computer account passwords after reports of hacking. One mother told Channel 2′s Mike Petchenik that when she got a call from her daughter’s assistant principal accusing her 10-year-old daughter of sending inappropriate messages to a teacher, she knew something wasn’t right. […] She contacted…
Private information of thousands who received Covid vaccine exposed in HSE blunder
Ailbhe Daly reports: The private information of thousands of people who have received the Covid-19 vaccine have been exposed following a HSE blunder. The IT system used by the HSE was compromised due to ‘human error’, meaning that confidential data was accessible despite earlier warnings by data chiefs. Crucial details that can often be used…
Ca: Lawyers file class-action lawsuit against Central Health over insider wrong-doing privacy breach
Tara Bradbury reports: Two St. John’s lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Central Regional Health Authority, seeking damages for consequences suffered by more than 200 patients whose private information was illegally accessed. “The plaintiffs in this case suffered distress, humiliation, anger, upset, mental anguish, shock, fear of identity theft, uncertainty as to how…