Kara Fohner reports:
Two more lawsuits filed against Gaston College allege that a data breach earlier this year exposed the personal information of more than 100,000 people.
The lawsuits, filed by Ludenia Archie and Shaquasia Eppes, both former students, state that in the Feb. 21 cybersecurity incident, in which a hacker accessed sensitive files and posted them online, the names, Social Security numbers, and other private information of approximately 191,000 people was exposed.
After learning of the hacking incident in February, Gaston College waited around six months to inform the people affected by the breach.
Read more at Gaston Gazette.
The college’s August notice about the incident is still available online as of today.
As DataBreaches previously reported, the incident showed up on Snatch Team’s leak site on April 6, and data was subsequently leaked. Unluckily for those affected, the 143 GB data leak was, and remains, available on the internet and has already been downloaded more than 250 times.