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Radford U. Waldron School of Health and Human Services
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:49:36 -0500
http://www.wsls.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSLS%2FMGArticle%2FSLS_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149193124169&path=!news!localnews Some local parents are wondering why Radford University is sending them letters. Jennifer Jarels got two letters, one for each of her sons, ages 2 and 4. They are obviously not students at Radford University. But Jarels received two of 2400 letters which warning of a security breach of a computer containing Social Security numbers and birthdates at RU's Waldron School of Health and Human Services. [...] Radford spokesman Rob Tucker said a virus put the information at risk. He said most of the 2400 identities were not RU students but declined to tell who they were or why their information was on an RU computer. Despite that, NewsChannel 10 found a link between RU and the kids. All the parents we talked to gave their child's personal information when enrolling them in "FAMIS": Family Access to Medical Insurance Security. According to Craig Markva, Director of Communication for Virginia's Department of Medical Assistance Services, Radford University previously had a privately funded outreach grant to promote the program and assist families enroll in FAMIS and the children's Medicaid program. Markva said DMAS was unaware of any security breach. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 570 incidents over 7 years.
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