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Berry College: Security breach on students' personal information
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news748399.html Berry College President Dr. Stephen R. Briggs informed the campus community of a potential security breach this morning. College officials were notified late Monday afternoon that student information included on applications for need-based federal aid filed during the 2005-06 academic year has been misplaced by an external financial aid consultant. This data, including student name, Social Security number and reported family income, involves 2,093 students or potential students who submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to Berry in 2005-06. Of those, 1,322 are currently enrolled at the college. At this time, there is no evidence that any of the data has been used for fraudulent purposes, college officials say. Briggs informed the Berry community of the potential breach via e-mail Wednesday morning. He noted that at no time were the administrative or student databases compromised and that, based on what is known at this time, no first-year students have been affected. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 359 incidents over 6 years.
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