Consumers asked to ‘stay cool’

agencies — acknowledged that it suffered a “cybersecurity incident” that could affect about 143 million U.S. consumers. Unauthorized access to the company’s data happened from midMay through July this year, Equifax said in a statement.

The company said it “discovered the unauthorized access” on July 29 and “acted immediately” to deal with it.

The information acce ssed includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers, the company said.

Local security experts said consumers should take steps to make sure their personal data was not breached, but not to panic.

If hackers were going to use the information, they probably have already done it.

“There’s a very good probability that information has already” been used, said Shawn Walker

More than 13 percent of all Ohio drug overdoses treated in emergency rooms through June of this year were in Montgomery County hospitals, accordingto state health statistics revealed by the county’s Community Overdose Action Team.

As the region’s opioid crisis intensified through the first half of this year, Montgomery County hospitalemergency departments received 2,565 overdose patients — more than any other Ohio county. In all, Ohio emergency departments treated 19,128 overdoses during the period, including 2,204 in Cuyahoga County, the state’s most populous.

“It is a public health problem. It is a public safety problem. It is a community problem,” said Montgomery County Health Commissioner Jeff Cooper on Thursday afternoon at the first of new monthly meetings to update the community on the team assembled to stabilize and bring down the number of opioid overdoses.

Deaths from accidental over-