back to article One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800K people

Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people. University System of Georgia (USG), which oversees 26 higher education institutions in the USA state, filed a …

  1. steven_t
    FAIL

    12 months from now or 12 months from then?

    Victims of the breach have been offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

    It was first detected 12 months ago, so the credit monitoring should have started 12 months ago. I'm fairly sure that didn't happen and they are offering monitoring for just the second year that the data was known to be available for misuse.

    1. 4Candle

      Re: 12 months from now or 12 months from then?

      There's probably so much information disclosed that they'll need more than 12 months to sift through it.

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