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Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift' Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift'
Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift' It's going to be happy holidays for the family of a Maryland Lottery player who carefully picked his spot and wound up winning a five-figure prize on a specifically selected scratcher. The Baltimore man must have made the "nice list" this year after he won a $50,000 second-tier prize playing a "Bonus Bingo X20" ticket that he celebrated at Lottery Headquarters. The 20-year cybersecurity expert who dubbed his big win "Christmas Gift," did his homework before heading out and picking up his winning ticket. The man said that he went on the Maryland Lottery website to research his instant ticke…
Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack
Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack Prince George’s County Schools were the target of a cyberattack that impacted thousands of accounts, district officials announced. On Monday morning, an estimated 4,500 user accounts out of 180,000 were impacted by the attack, primarily members of the staff, they said, though as of Tuesday afternoon they were still assessing the full scope of the incident. The following day, officials said that the main business and student information systems - Oracle and SchoolMAX - do not appear to be impacted, though the district is delaying password resets until noon on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Anyone impact…
Arrest Made In Crash That Killed One Of Nation's Top IT Specialists, MD Native Arrest Made In Crash That Killed One Of Nation's Top IT Specialists, MD Native
Arrest Made In Crash That Killed One Of Nation's Top IT Specialists, MD Native Police have made an arrest in the wild crash that killed a 36-year-old pedestrian being remembered as one of the nation's leading cyber security specialists last March in Fairfax County. Luis Merino Berrios, 18, of Alexandria, was behind the wheel of a 2007 Mercedes C230 heading south on Richmond Highway when he lost control and struck a Jeep Wrangler attempting to make a turn onto Groveton Street on March 30, Fairfax County police said. Berrios' car spun several times before leaving the roadway and hitting Samantha Jennings-Jones, who was walking on the sidewalk. Jennings-Jones was d…