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PA: 5, 000 student loan customers' info on stolen laptop
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:17 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804836-96.stm The theft of one laptop computer has resulted in compromising the personal information of more than 5,000 student loan customers. American Education Services -- the revenue-generating arm of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency -- has sent letters to 5,184 student loan customers telling them that their personal information was on a laptop stolen in a burglary at a subcontractor's headquarters in Livermore, Calif. The subcontractor is Vista Financial Inc., a subsidiary of Performant Financial Corp. The information, which was not encrypted, included name, address, phone number, e-mail address and Social Security number. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 220 million compromised records in 734 incidents over 7 years.
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