Long story short, GT had a security breach that put upwards of 1.3million individuals worth of confidential information, such as names, addresses, and social security numbers online for anyone to see. This includes students, faculty, and more worrisome to us, pretty much anyone who has ever applied to be a GT student. I just got my notice in the mail today that I was impacted, and given how closely aligned the curriculum of our two schools are, I'm sure a lot of you will be impacted as well.
Needless to say, freeze all of your credit. GT is going to pay for it all.
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One of my friends who is a senior in high school applied to Georgia Tech (he didn't get in but is going to Virginia Tech). I just notified him. Thanks for sharing, Alum.
I didn't see that in the article, so I'm assuming it was additional information in the letter. Does it say how far back? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if they had computerized records back in 1988, but I'm doubting that I'm affected.
I mean I applied in 2001 and was hit, so it goes a way back
They probably have you archived. Where I work, all applicant data is saved so if you reapply, old notes can be linked up.
So I should check my mail?
Life choices from 19 years ago, man...
Unfortunately, yes
Access millions of people's personal information... At Georgia Tech you can do that!
Chinballs strikes again
This one really hits below the belt. Specifically the knees
Things that have been antiquated at GT for too long:
1. Their football team's offense
2. Their IT security measures
GT is a shit show it a wonder the president still has a job. They had a huge issue with widespread corruption last year.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/lax-oversight-allowed-high-paid...
A UGA alum was in charge of Equifax' cyber security during that breach, and now GT has this.
This'll make for some fun conversations regarding their rivalry.
For those of you affected or at-risk, I wish you the best.
Hmm I applied and got in back in '97, have not seen anything yet so maybe it does not go back that far...
Paul Johnson checking his GT email inbox
Paul Johnson being taken in after it's discovered he initiated the breach.
Thanks for reminding me we don't have to play the triple option this regular season!
Unrelated but tech news that doesn't need it's own thread. Someone auctioned a laptop infected with 6 popular but outdated malware attacks as art. It went for $1.345 MILLION. So I've missed my easy opportunity to get rich as I imagine the market is over saturated at 1 overpriced infected laptop art.
Often, the first one promoted as such is "art", and the rest are just copycats.
Too much money chasing too few deals
I feel like that has to be money laundering or something like that going on there.
I'm offended that you assumed I'd apply to the lesser Tech.
Everyone needs a Safety School
It was mine.
Edit: To be honest, it was GT and Auburn. GT had a rolling admission then, and I applied in September and was accepted in October. Auburn, well, I sent my SAT scores there on a lark. My brother had done that two years before and got a letter from them saying STTEO just pay us the $25 application fee and you're in. I couldn't let him be the only one to get that letter.
Wanted the Naval Academy but was waitlisted there. (Good thing, too, in hindsight; my VTCC buds will attest to that.)
Only applied to the real Tech. Boom
Same here, applied early admission, was denied and a week later got my acceptance letter. Was able to stop filling out other applications once the mail arrived.
Somehow I did get accepted to Richard Bland Junior College though. I only asked for an application, and they were bugging me about picking my classes. Not sure how that happened. Only application that requested a picture too by the way.
I got a scholarship that WVU awarded me at my graduation. I went up and accepted it graciously, but I was early admission VT. So I don't know how that happened. This was not offered a scholarship, some one from WVU came to my high school and gave it to like 5 of us, the other 4 were going to WVU.
But my high school was dumb, we had 3 going to Virginia Tech and I was going to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and they didn't know what that was even though it was the rival of the univesity that most people in my town attended.
I, too, had scholarships to WVU. Most of my friends and acquaintances back home wanted to give me grief for choosing VT but when they found out my "backup" school was Pitt (who offered me a hefty scholarship to grow their MSE program, which by the way WVU doesn't even have), they came around to seeing my side. Common Market got me in-state tuition at Tech anyhow, starting after I declared as MSE.
They may hate us, but they hate Pitt a lot worse.
The old "enemy of my enemy" approach. Nice.
Same here.
I applied to VT early admission, got accepted, that was it. Didn't bother with any others.
Exact same route I took. Honesty if I hadn't gotten accepted I probably would have been completely lost. I knew Tech was the only school I wanted to attend. Looking back, I want to smack 17 year old me for being an unprepared, cocky idiot ha
My son just did the same thing and luckily got in early. I could have smacked him.
Same here. In hindsight, I'm glad it worked out, but it was probably more arrogant than I realized.
Same
Good thing I knew I would never go to that shithole!
I guess "You couldn't do that!" to yourself.
Sadly, it didn't really save your private information, as the stuff that didn't get stolen due to being in a GT application will eventually get consolidated and sold because you didn't read the fine print on your cell phone app agreements and used a grocery store card once.
Ha! I never applied!
I honesty never realized that a bunch of VT applicants also applied to GT. The latter never crossed my mind as a high school student in PA although I had one classmate head there.
Grew up in SC, so I applied to both. Chose the superior Tech, obviously.
I sent them my SAT scores because there were four lines for schools on the sheet. They seemed very interested, based on the amount of mail they sent me.
I didn't reciprocate.
Funny story about those silly SATs, VTs calculator for remedial math is only setup to use SAT, and they dont input check. How do I know? Well I took the ACT and got a really good score in math, so I applied to VT with my ACTs. I got accepted in November to the engineering school. May rolls around and I get a letter from VT that I would be placed in remedial math. I called VT to get this sorted out and they explained I had a 0 for my SAT math. I then said that 0 isnt a valid score and that I didn't send my SAT scores. They then looked at my ACT score and immediately told me they would fix this so I could take normal math for engineers.
Moral of the story send your SATs, and make sure your developers check their inputs!
So, I have a letter as well. As I said before, I never even applied.