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Update: $380k spent investigating, cleaning up after Ferris State’s online security breach

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Dissent

Brian McVicar reports the costs of the Ferris State University breach covered on this blog in August.

A total of $380,000 was spent investigating and providing services for those affected by a data security breach at Ferris State University that put at risk personal information of 62,000 people, according to a university report.

The report, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, also showed the attack – which exposed names and Social Security numbers of current, former and prospective students as well as current and former employees – originated from computers with IP addresses in California and China.

Read more on MLive.

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