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Takeaways from our investigation on AI-powered school surveillance

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Dissent

Sharon Lurye of The Associated Press and Claire Bryan of The Seattle Times report: Thousands of American schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology for 24/7 monitoring of student accounts and school-issued devices like laptops and tablets. The goal is to keep children safe, especially amid a mental health crisis and the threat of school shootings. Machine-learning algorithms detect potential indicators of problems…

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Endless Mountains Health Systems affected by cyberattack; patients alerted to situation

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Dissent

Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS) in Pennsylvania has been dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted its operations and some of its systems. They have not stated whether it is a ransomware incident or not. EMHS announced the attack on March 5 on its website, but had already been noting problems on its Facebook page…

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Extensive US public school employee data compromise reported from Carruth Compliance Consulting breach

Posted on March 8, 2025March 7, 2025 by Dissent

SC Media reports: Oregon-based third-party retirement plan administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting had information from more than 40,000 public school teachers and employees in California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania exfiltrated following a December attack by the newly emergent Skira Team hacking group, which purported the theft of data from 36 public schools across the…

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Info accessed in Rainbow board data breach ‘deleted and has not been shared’

Posted on March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 by Dissent

Sudbury.com reports: Data acquired by unauthorized individuals during Rainbow District School Board’s recent cyber incident “was deleted and has not been shared,” according to an update on the situation from the school board. The school board also said in the Feb. 28 statement that three weeks after the cyber incident, which meant internet was unavailable…

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Imprisoned IRS Contractor Leaked Information of Over 400,000 Taxpayers

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Dissent

James Lynch reports: Imprisoned former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn improperly leaked information of over 400,000 taxpayers, a far greater number than the agency previously disclosed. Acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell wrote a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) earlier this month notifying him that Littlejohn’s illegal disclosures impacted 405, 427 taxpayers,…

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Medical Billing Vendor Sued Over Health Data Leak ‘Gold Mine’

Posted on February 26, 2025February 26, 2025 by Dissent

Cassandre Coyer reports: Health-care billing company Medical Billing Specialists Inc. didn’t appropriately monitor its computer systems, failing to notice a data breach exposing swaths of its clients’ patient data, a proposed class action said. The provider didn’t follow its contractual requirements with medical providers, nor “industry standards, common law, and representations” it made about its…

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