After a similar incident last year and a major data breach in April, the university's "emergency response team" is now instating "corrective action."

A former director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, James McGarrah returns as the university's interim chief information officer.

It's the second major security breach the university has seen in the past 12 months.

Accenture Security is the first corporate sponsor to invest in a program launching in January to bolster the nation's cybersecurity workforce.