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Prosecutor: Passaic Police Sergeant Illegally Searched, Shared Personal Data Prosecutor: Passaic Police Sergeant Illegally Searched, Shared Personal Data
Prosecutor: Passaic Police Sergeant Illegally Searched, Shared Personal Data A City of Passaic police sergeant illegally tapped into limited-access law enforcement databases and shared some of the personal information she obtained, authorities charged. Ana M. DeIntinis, 47, of Passaic was arrested Monday afternoon in Totowa by detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, authorities said. She was charged with violating state laws that prohibit accessing a computer data base “in excess of authorization” and “knowingly disclosing personal identifying information,” as well as “obtaining personal information from a motor vehicle record without permissible use…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Change Your Password, Twitter Tells All 336M Users After Bug Found Change Your Password, Twitter Tells All 336M Users After Bug Found
Change Your Password, Twitter Tells All 336M Users After Bug Found Are you a Twitter user? Then you should change your password.  The social media company discovered a bug that saved user passwords on an internal log without proper encryption, it announced on Thursday. "We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone," the company tweeted. "As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password." In a blog post you can read here, Twitter said, "we found this error ourselves" and is "implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again."

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by Joe Lombardi