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View all threadsHi NCL colleagues,
I just caught up on this story from earlier in the summer. The Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation revealed that a data breach exposed the personally identifying information of 78,000 people in the Unemployment Insurance system and the adult education data system. Apparently there is no evidence that a hacker downloaded large amounts of data, so reading between the lines I am assuming this is a case of people having access to account logons they weren't supposed to have. But who really knows.
Article from State Scoop: https://statescoop.com/maryland-labor-department-data-breach-78000-literacy-works-information-system/
Formal press release from Maryland DLLR: https://www.dllr.state.md.us/whatsnews/datahotline.shtml
The state is notifying anyone who may have been affected by the breach, and offering 2 years of free credit monitoring.
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