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