Lansing Community College has been notified that the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) was victim to a cybersecurity incident. LCC does not use the MOVEit software, and its own systems were not part of this security incident.

NSC is a national nonprofit that collects enrollment and other student data from many colleges and universities, and LCC uses NSC for student financial aid compliance purposes.  NSC uses a third-party software tool, MOVEit Transfer, which contained a vulnerability that was exploited by an unauthorized party. LCC was informed by NSC that, as of August 16th, 2023, the only LCC-related data compromised were student names and students’ affiliation with LCC.  LCC has been assured that no other information was accessed and that there was no compromise of personally identifiable information.

NSC intends to directly contact individuals whose personally identifiable information was affected by this incident (for example, individuals whose Social Security Numbers or financial account information were accessed). Additional information can be found at: https://alert.studentclearinghouse.org/.   Because the affected information relating to the LCC community is not considered confidential personally identifiable information, LCC community members should not expect to hear further from NSC regarding the incident.

The safety of our community remains a top priority. LCC will continue to monitor this and other third-party security incidents that may affect information affecting the LCC community. We also encourage you to take precautionary steps to protect your own personal information from scams and identity theft. You should continue to practice good cybersecurity practices such as:  keep software and hardware up to date, beware of suspicious emails, use anti-virus, VPN, and firewall software, use strong unique passwords, enable multifactor authentication where available, and backup your critical information.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact the LCC Help Desk at 517-483-5221 or via e-mail at lcc1@lcc.edu.

 

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