Show-Me Tech Trouble Discount After 'Hack' Exposed Teachers

Online services are just a bit cheaper than Missouri's governor claimed. 

After an alleged "hack" exposed data that shouldn't have been embedded in HTML . . .

Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is offering 620,000 former and current teachers 12 months of credit and identity theft monitoring resources through IDX.

More deets . . . 

"The services offered through IDX will cost the state approximately $800,000. The state was able to take advantage of an existing multi-state contract with this vendor, which significantly lowered the cost for the credit and identity theft monitoring services."

Parson originally claimed during a press conference that the incident would cost the state $50 million as opposed to the $800,000 that is now being spent. Despite the ridicule Parson got from cybersecurity experts, the Missouri Highway Patrol-led investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Missouri apologizes to 600k teachers who had SSNs and private info exposed, offers credit monitoring | ZDNet

Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has apologized to the 620,000 past and present educators who had their sensitive information -- including their social security numbers -- exposed on the DESE certification database.

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