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Lawsuit targets Gaston College for hacking incident

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A woman has filed a lawsuit against Gaston College alleging that the college waited six months to notify her after learning that her Social Security number and other personal information were accessed and posted online by a hacker.

The class action lawsuit was filed Sept. 8 by Chasity Vernon of Lincolnton.

It alleges that on Feb. 22, Gaston College became aware of suspicious activity within its computer systems and found that a hacker accessed sensitive files between Feb. 21 and Feb. 22, 2023. On Aug. 26, 2023, approximately six months after the college first learned of the breach, Gaston College began to notify students that their personal information had been accessed.

Identity thieves can use stolen personal information for a wide variety of crimes, including credit card fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, and other forms of identity theft, according to the lawsuit.

The stolen information was posted on both the regular internet and the Dark Web, a section of the internet often used for criminal activity.

Vernon herself received a letter Aug. 26 from Gaston College telling her that her name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, date of birth, and student identification number had been compromised. The notice offered Vernon a year of credit monitoring.

“One year of credit monitoring is not sufficient given that (Vernon) will now experience a lifetime of increased risk of identity theft and other forms of targeted fraudulent misuse of her private information,” the lawsuit stated.

Vernon anticipates spending a considerable amount of time and money to try to protect herself, the lawsuit stated.

The lawsuit asks for an unspecified amount of damages and an order telling Gaston College to purchase or provide funds for lifetime credit monitoring and identity theft insurance for Vernon and others who were affected.

Gaston College did not respond to a request for comment Monday.

Vernon could not be reached for comment.

This article originally appeared on The Gaston Gazette: Lawsuit targets Gaston College for hacking incident

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Letter: The great pretenders – Opinion – Gaston Gazette

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As I write this there is no president-elect. It doesn’t matter what The Associated Press says, or any other mainstream news broadcaster says.

For readers who don’t know, the press has no authority to call an election. Only each state’s election apparatus has that authority, and not one state so far has certified the election results.

Despite this, newspapers and television news shows are asserting that Joe Biden is the president-elect. And to make this theater even more bizarre, Joe Biden and his selected vice-president candidate, Kamala Harris, are pretending they have been elected.

Over the last several months we have witnessed Joe Biden behaving as though he has some mental impairment, probably dementia. I have to wonder who is convincing him that he has won this election when in fact, so far, he has not.

Does he really believe this? We know he is a plagiarist and spins tall tales about Corn Pop and such, so is this just another one of his fantasies?

Worse than that, who are those trying to fool the American people that the Biden/Harris ticket has been elected? There is an avalanche of disinformation distributed under the name of “news.” The credibility of mainstream media outlets is now at the bottom of the pits, it’s so bad.

This is not just sad, this is criminal.The FCC has rules against distorting the news, lying to the public. It’s against the law, especially if the distortion causes public harm.

When all of the Democrats are finally made aware that Biden/Harris have not been elected, what kind of reaction does anyone expect? Will there be public harm as the left has promised?

In a nutshell, there has been a three-pronged attack on our election. The first one I just described; disinformation.

The second one is the traditional method of election fraud that involves illegal ballot stuffing. Ballot stuffing this election is on steroids due to some 300 million unverifiable ballots mailed out by the DNC to anyone and everyone, including dead people and cats.

This particular election fraud also includes back-dating ballots, dumping thousands of ballots at 4 a.m., destroying ballots with the GOP choice indicated. There are now lawsuits in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,…

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