Data Breach

City Council passes ordinance on displaying vaping products by a vote of 8 to 4, with public comments by some who say the ordinance will cost them their jobs.

Montana is one of 30 states to settle with Primera Blue Cross over its failure to secure sensitive consumer data.

The Montana Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Protection says a recent data breach of Equifax, one of the financial industry's three top credit reporting agencies, has put the personal information of over 143,000 million Americans, and 368,000 Montanans at risk.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced this week that the state of Montana has received part of the settlement with Nationwide Insurance over a data breach that occurred in 2012.

During the 2015 session, a legislation was passed that required any company doing business in Montana to report to the office of consumer protection whenever that company has fallen victim to a data breach of any sort.

The Sanders County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who assaulted a 12 year-old girl over the weekend.

Following the resignation of Libby Oliver, the vice-principal deemed responsible for the December data breach at Missoula's Hellgate High School, a new administrative team has been appointed.

Superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools Mark Thane announced on Friday that Libby Oliver, the Hellgate assistant principal responsible for a major data breach, has officially submitted her resignation.

Human error has been blamed for a data breach that occurred earlier this month at Missoula's Hellgate High School.

Human error was ultimately responsible for the data breach at Hellgate High School on December 4.