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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Monday is the first day of tax season, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is warning Illinois residents to be vigilant of scammers. Some common scams are disguised to look like official communication from the Internal Revenue Service to steal personal information from taxpayers’ documents. “Just like throughout the year, you should […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Identity Theft Awareness Week takes place Jan. 29 through Feb. 2, and FBI Springfield is putting a spotlight on protecting personally identifiable information, or PII. Compromised credentials can be sold when a business or organization is breeched online, which can lead to perpetrators taking out loans in your name, opening financial […]

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools, one of the nation’s largest districts, should make several changes to safeguard student privacy, according to legal experts who investigated the recent accidental release of sensitive, confidential records on more than 35,000 students. Several of the documents were internal memos about special education services and litigation against the district that included […]

Sen. Mike Lee supports prohibiting warrantless searches. What is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? What will Congress do to FISA Section 702?

Patients' private data, potentially including their Social Security numbers and financial information, may have been stolen in the hack.

Cambridge MP calls for a full review after Addenbrooke's Hospital apologises for two data breaches.

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare had 9 of its 45 hospitals affected by a data breach involving MOVEit file transfer software.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One woman says her 97-year-old mother’s medical records were given to the family of a man in his late 50s in a medical mix-up at St. Francis Hospital. Now, she is trying to sort out how this could happen and whether other patients’ private information is being compromised. Kimberly Nash is feeling […]

The lawsuit claims a “secret” inquiry found that around 60 BOP officers accessed and shared unauthorized sensitive information about Kelly […] The post R. Kelly sues the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Tasha K for leaking private info appeared first on TheGrio.

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