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Cooke County notified thousands of residents of data breach

from Gainesville Daily Register via Government Technology

Cooke County notified thousands of residents of data breach Gainesville Daily Register via Government Technology More than 2,000 letters were recently mailed out mostly to North Texans notifying them that their personal information might've been compromised during a July cyberattack, according to Cooke County Judge Jason Brinkley. The judge said notices were mailed early last week by a third-party service that is assisting in the notification process. On July 4, a ransomware attack on the county's information system for the Cooke County Sheriff's Office resulted in the data breach of personal identification information, the Gainesville Daily Register previously reported. READ MORE

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