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Second laptop with student data was stolen
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:07:16 -0400 (EDT)
University of Minnesota officials confirmed Thursday a second theft of a laptop computer this summer that contained private student data. The incident involved a U art department laptop holding about 200 student names, university IDs and grades but no Social Security numbers. It was stolen from a faculty member in June during a trip to Spain. There's no indication the data have been misused, though the loss was considered a security breach under Minnesota law. Last month, the U acknowledged two Institute of Technology laptops were stolen in August with data on more than 13,000 students who enrolled in the school as freshmen between fall 1991 and 2006. Some of those records contained Social Security numbers. [...] http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/15801934.htm (Reg. Req.) _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years.
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