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Data Breach Reported At School District In Westchester Data Breach Reported At School District In Westchester
Data Breach Reported At School District In 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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by Ben Crnic
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School Lockouts Lifted After Threat At Private Academy In Westchester, Police Say School Lockouts Lifted After Threat At Private Academy In Westchester, Police Say
School Lockouts Lifted After Threat At Private Academy In Westchester, Police Say This story has been updated. Lockouts at three schools in Westchester have been lifted after a threat at a nearby private academy was contained to that campus, police said. The schools, Columbus Elementary, Westlake Middle School and Westlake High School, in Mount Pleasant, were put on lockdown around 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, following some type of threat and police investigation at the EF Academy, said Mount Pleasant School District Superintendent of Schools Kurtis Kotes. "All police supervisors have reconciled that it is safe for us to dismiss our students," Kotes said in an email to par…

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by Kathy Reakes