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<p class="xmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">SCLA had a security incident involving our backend access. It has come to our attention that access to the administrative
section of our accounts was breached. Since then, the Executive Board has met multiple times, and has taken the following steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Immediately upgraded password strength and access </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsonormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Removed multiple user access </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsonormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Updated our security procedures
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please note that this incident did not affect your personal, professional, or financial information that SCLA has access to.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">This has alerted the association to a weakness in our security procedure, and it was immediately rectified.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please reach out to me directly if you have any questions, and please understand that we’re actively working to fix the issue so this doesn’t happen again.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Carisse Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">SCLA President, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:cmitchell@wbpl.us" target="_blank">cmitchell@wbpl.us</a>
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