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University of Michigan breaks down August social media hack

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Dissent

Katie Penrod reports on some nice transparency by U. Michigan:

After several of the University’s official Facebook pages were hacked last week, administrators spent time reflecting on what went wrong.

In light of the hack, University of Michigan Social Media, which runs all of the University’s social media accounts, published a case study analyzing the University’s response to the security breach.

Read more on MichiganDaily or jump to the case study.

 

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