DETROIT – Current and former city of Detroit employees started receiving their letters last week, alerting them that some unknown actor had gained access to some of the city’s systems in August of last year.
It appears to affect those hired before 2016. That’s thousands of people, but the administration says most were names and addresses.
That said, about 2,500 had their social security numbers exposed.
“Unfortunately, this is just the world we live in right now,” said Matt Loria of Auxiom. These breaches are common.”
Loria provides cybersecurity consulting and implementation for businesses.
Local 4 showed him the letter employees received, which offers, at no cost, a year of credit monitoring.
“It’s a great start, but people need to make sure they actually enroll,” Loria said.
Keeping business data safe is a top concern for companies. Auxiom has been swamped with requests to the point they’re doing a day-long event next week to help others prevent their business data from being compromised.
Even if you have yet to get a letter informing you that data has been targeted, Loria suggests everybody have a third-party monitoring service.
“Security is a layered approach, and it’s never just one thing,” Loria said.