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Notification of data breach involving Palm Beach County Tax Collector’s Office leaves residents confused

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

Sam Smink reports on a case where 244 people have been notified of a data breach at the Palm Beach County Tax Collector’s Office that involves their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers,, but the notification is so poorly worded that no one really understands how to interpret what they are being told. Here’s where…

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Florida high school caught hacking into opponents’ Hudl videos

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

Jim Halley reports: Coaches for the football team at Braden River (Bradenton, Fla.), which finished 9-2 last season and advanced to the second round of state 7A playoffs, were caught using a college Hudl account to access opponents’ game and practice videos. As first reported by The Sarasota Herald, a Hudl investigation determined that the…

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IL: Exposed Personal Information In Traffic Records Concerns Commissioner’s Office

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

Brad Edwards reports: An exclusive CBS 2 investigation revealing Cook County failed to protect the public’s personal information has prompted the Commissioner to take action. For years, the private information of anyone issued a traffic citation in the state of Illinois has been readily available to anyone who asks for it, CBS 2 reports. An…

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Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225,000 in Credit

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Dissent

Jacey Fortin reports: Hundreds of prison inmates in Idaho found a way to add hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of credit to their personal accounts, officials discovered this month. The prisoners were not inflating their bank accounts, but rather their JPay accounts. JPay is a service that inmates can use to communicate with the…

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Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…

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KS: Garden City Community College investigating possible email breach

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…

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