Fewer than 10,000 people have signed up for free credit monitoring, despite a massive data breach in the Georgia Secretary of State's Office that exposed the personal data of more than 6 million registered voters.
As of 10 a.m. this morning, 9,545 people had registered with the Austin, Texas-based CSID — the data protection company hired by the state last month to provide voters a year of free credit and identity theft monitoring services, costing the state $1.2 million.
All Georgia voters in the breach whose identity was compromised are additionally eligible for identity theft restoration services if their identity is compromised over the next year.
The website to sign-up for the services is https://www.csid.com/gasos/.
The personal data released in the breach — including Social Security numbers, birth dates and driver's license numbers — appear to have been inadvertently sent out in October to 12 organizations that regularly subscribe to "voter lists" maintained by the state.
The groups receiving the data — delivered via compact discs — included state political parties, news media organizations and Georgia GunOwner Magazine.
Kemp has said all 12 data discs have either been recovered or destroyed. Kemp has blamed the actions of a single employee, whom he fired after the breach became public. But records reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show the problem was deeper than he has acknowledged, revealing a business culture that ignored written policies for the sake of expediency.
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