Higher Ed Falls Victim to New Data Breach
By: Linda Perkins
On April 2, 2019, The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced that it had sustained a data breach when one of its central databases was accessed by an unknown outsider through a web application, thereby exposing the personal information of up to 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. Local news organizations report that information security officials at the university are continuing to investigate the incident to determine the extent to which its systems were compromised and to identify those individuals whose information was compromised. …
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