LANSING, MI — Lansing Community College has sent letters to more than three-quarters of a million people telling them they possibly had their social security numbers stolen in a data breach at at the school earlier this year.
The local community college in downtown Lansing notified “757,832 employees, students and vendors that their personal information may have been accessed or acquired by an unknown unauthorized person,” according to a report in the Lansing State Journal.
According to media reports a data breach was discovered and reported by the college earlier this year. The school shut down for several days in March because of the cyber hack. In the letter, the school said an “unauthorized actor” had access to “certain systems” from Dec. 25, 2022, until discovered on March 15, 2023.
It took until May 24, 2023, to determine what information the actor had access to, according to the LSJ report.
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