The University of Michigan says in a statement today that they suffered a data breach after hackers broke into its network in August and accessed systems with information belonging to students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, patients, and research study participants.
Genuine question: If the network is decentralized, how are they able to determine the amount of users on the system?
The article mentions opt-in usage reporting, but that would only indicate there's around 115 million users actively reporting that they're using it, right?