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AZ Board of Education discloses FERPA incident, sends veiled threat to recipient of disclosed material?

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Dissent

The Arizona State Board of Education has notified parents on a breach: Whoops: The State Board of Education says it “inadvertently” released student information when it released records on A-F grading appeals. pic.twitter.com/jwHManpAbQ — Rachel Leingang (@rachelleingang) October 26, 2017 So here’s the thing: this is the state’s error in responding to a FOIA request…

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Midland County notifies residents of data breach

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Dissent

Violet Trevizo reports: The Midland County District Attorney is warning residents after their third-party payment system was hacked. According to a press release, information entered into a third-party payment system could have been compromised back on Sept. 6 due to a security breach. Since the forensic investigation was not conducted by the vendor, Midland County…

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Equifax Was Warned

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Dissent

Last year, a security researcher alerted Equifax that anyone could have stolen the personal data of all Americans. The company failed to heed the warning. Great reporting by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on Motherboard. Go read it all.

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Is a vendetta by the FBI keeping an innocent man in jail, or has DOJ just lost its mind altogether?

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Dissent

I’ve had enough. Actually, I’ve had more than enough. I should have written this post months ago. Last week I received notice from Twitter Legal that they had been served with a grand jury subpoena for my account information. Also listed in the grand jury subpoena were four other Twitter accounts, only one of which…

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ICE Leads Investigation Into Medical Records Stolen From East Brunswick

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to an incident previously reported on this site. Charlie Kratovil reports: A Sayreville man was arrested on September 12 and charged with “selling medical records that he stole from a storage unit in East Brunswick,” according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO). Authorities stated that “over 1,000 medical records,” which contained…

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FirstHealth Computer Network Threatened by Malware Virus

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Dissent

Laura Douglass reports: A computer malware virus that has devastated a number of businesses across the globe has been disrupting operations the last several days at FirstHealth of the Carolinas and a number of doctors’ offices across the Sandhills. The malware virus was detected in the organization’s computer network midday Tuesday and the system has…

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