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DougCo Sheriff’s Office cancels contract with alert network after security breach

Nov 25, 2025

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Sage Kelley

Thousands of Coloradans may have had their information leaked due to a security breach on CodeRED — a emergency notification system used by various metro agencies. CodeRED by Crisis24, a company based in Maryland, sent a letter to users on Friday stating that the system was part of a “targeted attack by an organized cybercriminal…
Colorado was potential target of Facebook data breach, IT expert says

Apr 11, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado’s status as an election swing state likely made it a target for the kind of data breach described by Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg during his congressional testimony Tuesday, according to a Boulder-based information technology expert. Zuckerberg was grilled by senators outraged that a British political consulting firm was able to collect…
Williams to sponsor bill to protect consumers from credit reporting agencies

Jan 3, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

UPDATED with comment from Rep. Williams on credit alternatives. More than 145 million Americans woke up on Sept. 8 to find that their personal data, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers had been stolen through a security breach at the credit reporting agency Equifax. Rep. Dave Williams…
Colorado mental hospital has data breach, but no damage was done, investigators say

Dec 22, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

An employee at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo fell for a phishing scam on a state computer on Nov. 1, but an investigation has found no evidence the phishers caught any data, the state Department of Human Services said Friday afternoon. Phishing is an internet scam that involves getting access to passwords or…
Gardner grills Equifax CEO about data breach in Senate committee

Nov 10, 2017

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Jessica Machetta

Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) questioned former Equifax CEO Richard Smith and Equifax interim-CEO Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., about the company’s massive data breach at a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing. Equifax said in September that hackers breached a flaw in their system, stealing names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s…
? Colorado congressmen call for cybersecurity measures after hack attacks

Oct 18, 2016

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Tom Ramstack

Ongoing accusations by the Obama administration that the Russian government should be blamed for hacking the computers of presidential campaigns is reviving calls by federal lawmakers for improvements to internet security. Among them is Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who pledged to introduce a bill imposing stiff sanctions on Russian cyber-criminals. “Russia’s interference with American democracy…

data breach

DougCo Sheriff’s Office cancels contract with alert network after security breach

Colorado was potential target of Facebook data breach, IT expert says

Williams to sponsor bill to protect consumers from credit reporting agencies

Colorado mental hospital has data breach, but no damage was done, investigators say

Gardner grills Equifax CEO about data breach in Senate committee

? Colorado congressmen call for cybersecurity measures after hack attacks