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Schools
Data Breach Reported At School District In Northern Westchester
A data breach may have exposed information related to some students at a school district in Northern Westchester. The breach was announced by Mount Pleasant Central School District Superintendent Peter Giarrizzo on Friday, Feb. 17, who said that several student email passwords may have been compromised by the incident. After the data breach was discovered on Friday, an investigation into the matter found that several passwords belonging to Grade 7 students in the district had been posted to a shared Google Classroom during the 2020-2021 school year. After this document was …
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Quest Diagnostics Says Nearly 12M May Have Had Financial, Personal Info Exposed In Data Breach
Millions of Quest Diagnostics patients may have had their financial, medical and other personal information exposed in a data breach, the company announced on Monday. Officials at Quest Diagnostics said Monday that 11.9 million peoples’ personal information, including Social Security numbers may have been compromised after one of its billing collectors reported a data breach. According to Quest Diagnostics, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) notified the company and a Quest contractor that uses AMCA’s billing services last month. The number of patients impacted was only recently dete…
Business
AOL To Pay State $5M Fine In Largest Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Penalty Ever
The company that was once AOL will pay nearly $5 million for violating children’s privacy rights. Oath Inc., formerly known as AOL, has agreed to a record settlement for $4.95 million, the largest penalty ever levied in a Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). The settlement came after the company conduction billions of auctions with targeted ads on hundreds of children’s websites, violating COPPA. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said that her office found that AOL conducted billions of auctions for ad space on hundreds of we…
Lifestyle
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."
Lifestyle
NY Joins Investigation Of Facebook Data Use As Zuckerberg Responds
As the controversy heightens as to how data mining company Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users' profile information to aid Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, New York State has joined those demanding answers from the social media giant. "Consumers have a right to know how their information is used -- and companies like Facebook have a fundamental responsibility to protect their users' personal information," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement. "We sent a demand letter to Facebook -- the first step in our joint investi…