In a previous post, I shared articles about an angry Congressional staffer who posted PII of conservative Senators and their families online. This week, he pleaded guilty to five federal charges and faces some serious and well-deserved jail time. This young man was angry about a Supreme Court nominee and retaliated against the Senators who supported the judge.
The last paragraph of the article showed how deranged he was, threatening to release the medical information on the Senators and their families. “If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials”. This deserves a long prison sentence to send a message to other crusaders for their causes. It’s true that you never know who it might be.
I’m impressed with the part about the targeted Senators’ staffers who saw the posted information and had it removed quickly. That must be a full-time job to monitor websites for harmful content. If you haven’t set up Google Alerts for your names and phone numbers, I recommend it. This will send you an email if your name appears in a website they index. It’s not foolproof, but it helps. We purchased our names as a domain and put a blank webpage there a few months ago and within a week, we had a Google Alert for the site. I also recommend thorough monthly searches on Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, etc… for all your family members (names, email addresses, and phone numbers). Don’t forget to look at the images to make sure photographs aren’t leaking from your social medial profiles.
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