Feder: Two-year data breach hits employees' email at WTTW, WFMT
Posted January 06, 2021 12:00 am
Window to the World Communications, parent company of WTTW-Channel 11 and WFMT 98.7-FM, alerted employees this week to the discovery of a data breach in its computer system believed to have occurred over nearly a two-year period, Robert Feder writes.
Investigations by a law firm and forensic accounting firm determined that emails and personal information of approximately 40 staffers were hacked between December 2018 and August 2020.
A data security company has been retained to provide employees with identity monitoring at no cost for two years.
Get the full report, and more Chicago media news, at robertfeder.com.
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