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Re: Social Security Numbers Exposed in CCSU Letters
From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:56:09 -0500
Yes but it's amazing how a little due diligence could have prevented this "breach". I mean, with 750 physical letters going out...someone should have noticed. Of course, FERPA violations have no teeth as we don't hear about colleges and universities losing Federal funding. So, per usual, it's left to Civil Action to force penalization. Educational institutions don't seem to be as effected by "loss of reputation" when these things happen. On 2/10/07, Sharon Besser <sbesser () gmail com> wrote:
Over the past week approximately 750 CCSU students have received mail from the Bursar's office that revealed their social security numbers in the name and address window of the envelopes. The letters were folded incorrectly by a malfunctioning machine in the office. http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=175 The machine did it :-) -- Sharon _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 566 incidents over 7 years.
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