{"id":26839,"date":"2026-01-06T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=26839"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:06:40","slug":"idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By PETER HANCOCK<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Story Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDHS says it inadvertently stored protected health information on a publicly accessible website involving more than 32,000 Division of Rehabilitation Services customers and more than 672,600 Medicaid and Medicare Savings Program recipients.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The information was stored on a mapping website and was publicly accessible for more than three years before the vulnerability was discovered.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal regulations require the department to notify affected individuals and news media of such breaches within 60 days of their discovery, but IDHS did not report the breaches for more than 100 days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDHS would not explain why it took so long to discover the breaches or why it took so long to make the legally required public notification.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2013 The Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed recently that it mistakenly uploaded private health-related information about hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans to a publicly accessible website and left it there for more than three years before it discovered the mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the agency would not explain this week why it took officials so long to discover the problem or why officials waited more than three months after it was discovered to notify the individuals affected and the news media, as required by federal rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a news release dated Friday, Jan. 2, IDHS said the data breach involved two categories of individuals. One category included approximately 32,401 customers of its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.state.il.us\/page.aspx?item=29764\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Division of Rehabilitation Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which provides services to people with disabilities. The other involved more than 672,000 recipients in the Medicaid and Medicare Savings Program, which helps low-income Medicare beneficiaries pay for premiums, deductibles and coinsurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In both cases, the agency said, information about individuals was uploaded to a mapping website used by the agency\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.state.il.us\/page.aspx?item=32018\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bureau of Planning and Evaluation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The bureau used that site to create maps \u201cto assist IDHS with resource allocation decisions, such as determining where to open new local offices,\u201d according to the news release. It said the maps were intended for internal use only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, according to the news release, due to \u201cincorrect privacy settings,\u201d the maps and the information contained within them were publicly viewable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The maps containing information about Rehabilitation Services customers were publicly accessible from April 2021 through September 2025 when the flaw was discovered, the agency said. That included customers\u2019 names, addresses, case numbers, case status, referral source information, region and office information and individuals\u2019 status as DRS recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The maps containing information about Medicare Savings Program recipients were publicly accessible from January 2022 until September 2025. The information included addresses, case numbers, demographic information and the names of individuals\u2019 medical assistance plans such as Medicaid and Medicare. The information did not include recipients\u2019 names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In both cases, IDHS said, the vulnerabilities were discovered on Sept. 22, 2025, at which point officials changed the privacy settings to restrict access to only authorized IDHS employees. The agency said it also conducted a \u201ccomprehensive review\u201d to determine the type of data contained in each map and assess its reporting obligations under state and federal law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIDHS has developed and implemented a Secure Map Policy that prohibits the uploading of any customer-level data to public mapping websites,\u201d the agency said in its Jan. 2 news release. \u201cUnder this policy, no identifiable customer information may be uploaded, entered, or stored on public mapping platforms. Access to any customer-related maps is now restricted to authorized personnel based on role-specific needs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Federal regulations<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to federal regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, whenever a health plan, health care clearinghouse or health care provider discovers an individual\u2019s protected health information has been breached, that entity is required to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/45\/164.404\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">notify the individual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cwithout unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of a breach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a breach involves more than 500 residents of a state or jurisdiction, the entities also are required to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/45\/164.406\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">notify \u201cprominent media outlets\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> serving that area within 60 calendar days after discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news release announcing the two breaches at IDHS was issued 102 days the agency said it discovered the breaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDHS declined to answer directly when asked by Capitol News Illinois why it took the agency more than three years to realize it was exposing individuals\u2019 protected health information on a public website and why, after discovering the vulnerability, it took the agency more than 100 days to provide the legally required public notification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe privacy and security of IDHS customers and residents is an utmost priority,\u201d the agency said in an email. \u201cImmediately upon learning of the issue, IDHS moved to secure the relevant information and began internal review and practices to prevent anything similar from happening in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Story Summary IDHS says it inadvertently stored protected health information on a publicly accessible website involving more than 32,000 Division of Rehabilitation Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"760\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Greg Sapp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Greg Sapp\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Greg Sapp\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1\"},\"headline\":\"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":821,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/\",\"name\":\"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg\",\"width\":1140,\"height\":760},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":69,\"caption\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1\",\"name\":\"Greg Sapp\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/greg_sapp\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","og_description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/","og_site_name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","article_published_time":"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1140,"height":760,"url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Greg Sapp","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Greg Sapp","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/"},"author":{"name":"Greg Sapp","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1"},"headline":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach","datePublished":"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/"},"wordCount":821,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/","name":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg","datePublished":"2026-01-06T21:06:40+00:00","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/230809-IDHS-LOGO-PACKARD-0346-JN.jpg","width":1140,"height":760},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/26839-idhs-reports-yearslong-data-breach\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IDHS Reports Yearslong Data Breach"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","width":272,"height":69,"caption":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1","name":"Greg Sapp","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/author\/greg_sapp\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Greg Sapp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26841,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839\/revisions\/26841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}