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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2023

Health department experiences security breach involving Lake County residents’ personal information: Lake County officials secured the account and investigated the unauthorized activity with Microsoft.

Are they only paying Microsoft for those back-doored (in perpetuity) systems or also for "advice" after these inevitable breaches?

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