Data Breach Could Impact 1700 Rochester Public Library Users

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Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - The City of Rochester is reporting a data breach that could affect Rochester Public Library customers.

A statement issued by the city late Friday afternoon says the public library when is notified that one of its service partners, MNLINK, experienced a data breach on Thursday. In what is been described as a random cyber attack, the names and email addresses of over 1700 Rochester Public Library customers may have been accessed.

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The public library will be directly communicating with the potentially impacted customers in the coming days. The news release says they will be encouraged to get a new library card and change their PIN.

MNLINK and the library have indicated they are confident no additional private information was accessed. MNLINK is a statewide service that links libraries throughout Minnesota. The organization says it will be implementing additional security measures that include requiring a PIN for all users at participating libraries.

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