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Minnesota - Thousands of students have IDs at risk after computer theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy PogoWasRight.org http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/15475291.htm A pair of computers containing the personal information - in some cases Social Security numbers - of thousands of University of Minnesota students was stolen from a campus office. Now officials are scrambling to let past and present students know their identities may be in danger. The computers, stolen in August from the desk of a program coordinator at the university's Institute of Technology, contained data on 13,084 students who joined the school as freshmen between the fall of 1992 and 2006. Files included such information as names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, the high school they attended, student identification numbers, grades and test scores, and academic probation. And, in hundreds of cases, Social Security numbers. University spokesman Daniel Wolter said the university's main effort is focused on contacting 603 past students whose Social Security numbers were stolen. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 145 million compromised records in 341 incidents over 6 years.
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