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Data Breach Reported At School District In Northern Westchester Data Breach Reported At School District In Northern Westchester
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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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County A juvenile is facing several charges after remotely breaking into the online classroom of a high school in the region, and then using racial slurs, according to police. The incident happened in Connecticut in the fall of 2020. Late on Friday, May 28, in Fairfield County, members of the Newtown Police Department charged the local youth for cybercrimes. The arrest was made at the conclusion of a six-month-long police investigation, of unknown persons accessing Google classrooms at Newtown High School and using racial epithets, in an abusive and disruptive manner. School Resource Officer W…

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by Joe Lombardi
Business
Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube
Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube 2020 strikes again. Google temporarily went down for approximately an hour early in the morning on Monday, Dec. 14, impacting its many services, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, and YouTube. The outages were reported on social media shortly before  7 a.m. on Monday, with most of Google’s services - including Google Classroom, which prevented some students around the world from remote learning temporarily - back shortly after 8 a.m., though it remained down longer for some. The outage impacted both mobile and desktop devices. It was reportedly caused by an authentication sy…

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by Zak Failla