http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/05/19/data-breach-costs-approach-million/9312729/
By Mary Beth Faller
The Republic
azcentral.com
May 20, 2014
The Maricopa County Community College District governing board has
approved an additional $2.3 million in lawyers' fees to deal with the
computer-security breach that occurred last year.
The board also approved spending $300,000 to deal with records management,
pushing the total amount authorized for the breach to nearly $20 million.
Last week, the governing board approved the $2.3 million allocation to the
law firm of Greenberg Traurig, which has a Phoenix office, to handle two
class-action lawsuits that have been filed over the breach.
Last November, the district disclosed that hackers had invaded a computer
server in April 2013, exposing Social Security numbers and banking
information of 2.4 million current and former students, faculty members
and vendors from as far back as 30 years ago.
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