Remember the Breach? It's getting to be time to remember

You haven't forgotten UC's Accellion data breach, have you? You know, the breach that put supposedly-confidential data concerning just about anyone associated with UC on the "dark web" last spring. Things like Social Security numbers. That breach!

Well, yours truly hasn't forgotten. Not at all! He also remembers that in recompense, UC provided one year's free data monitoring to anyone linked to UC and the breach by the firm Experian. The problem now is that in a couple of months or so, those who signed up initially for the free monitoring will have exhausted their allowable time. 

The latest information you will find on the UC website about this affair is updated to May 12, 2021:

https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2021/04/update-on-accellion-breach-and-what-you-should-do.html

The question now - apart from additional information on exactly what happened and what UC is doing about it, technically and through litigation - is whether UC will extend free monitoring beyond one year. So far, there has been no word about extension, or any word at all.

Here is UC president Drake discussing the breach back in late April 2021:

https://archive.org/details/drake-cucea-cucra-4-28-21-full/drake+CUCEA-CUCRA+4-28-21+Data+Breach.wma