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Floyd family considers legal action after alleged hospital data breach

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.  – The family of George Floyd is considering action against Hennepin County Medical Center for alleged multiple breaches of his confidential information. A family lawyer said they were recently informed of breaches of Floyd’s data and that the employees no longer work at the hospital. Attorney Antonio Romanucci said the family was very disappointed that “even in death,…
Community, Crime, Local News, Moorhead

Moorhead School District Responds To Data Breach

Thousands of schools across the country were exposed to a data breach leaking students' information from 2007 to 2016.
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MOORHEAD, Minn. — Current and former students and parents were sent an unexpected email within the Moorhead School District. Thousands of schools across the country were exposed to a data breach leaking students’ information from 2007 to 2016. Hackers were able to access students’ first and last names and their date of birth. We spoke to staff from the district…
Minnesota News, Moorhead

Moorhead Public Schools Affected by Data Breach

The data breach affected more than 13,000 schools and universities dating back to 2007.
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MOORHEAD, Minn.– We are learning more about a data breach that impacted school districts nationwide including Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead. The breach affected an online assessment platform called AIMSweb. It is owned by the Pearson Clinical Assessment company. Moorhead Area Public schools used the software between 2007 and 2016. They have just been told that the breach impacted nearly…
Local News, North Dakota News

Bismarck School Students, Employees Exposed to Data Breach

The exposed data was isolated to first name, last name, and possibly date of birth and email addresses.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting about 18,500 current and former Bismarck Public Schools students and nearly 1,100 employees. Administrators say the exposed data involves a company that provides a universal screening tool to the district. Pearson Clinical Assessment officials say about 13,000 schools and universities were impacted nationwide by a breach that occurred…
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Data Breach Impacts Local Customers of Dunn Brothers Coffee And Others

customers at these locations and dozens of others across the region could have had their credit cards compromised
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BEMIDJI, MN — A new data breach to tell you about that is impacting local customers of Dunn Brothers Coffee, Tacos Trompo, the VFW in West Fargo and Vinyl Taco of Grand Forks. North Country Business Products says customers at these locations and dozens of others across the region could have had their credit cards compromised between January 3 and 24….
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Equifax Dumps CEO

Equifax replaces CEO in the wake of massive data breach.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Credit reporting agency Equifax is ousting CEO Richard Smith in an effort to clean up the mess left by a damaging data breach that exposed highly sensitive information about 143 million Americans. The shake-up announced Tuesday comes after Equifax disclosed that hackers exploited a software flaw that the company didn’t fix to heist Social Security numbers,…
Business, Local News, News Landing Page, North Dakota News

248,000 North Dakota Residents May Be Affected By Equifax Breach

The information includes Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and possibly driver's license and credit card information.
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BISMARCK – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says more than 248,000 of the state’s residents may have had their personal information exposed in a nationwide data breach of credit reporting company Equifax. Stenehjem’s office said Tuesday that Equifax provided the number of North Dakotans who are potentially exposed to the data breach. The information includes Social Security numbers, birthdates,…