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9 years of La. applicants' data lost
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:37:46 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/5222008.html Sensitive data for virtually all Louisiana college applicants and their parents over the past nine years were in a case lost last month during a move, officials said. The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance was advised to not say how many records were involved and the media format in which they were stored, Executive Director Melanie Amrhein said Wednesday. The state Attorney General's Office is investigating the loss. The lost case held backup data for every Louisiana application for federal student aid - just about anyone who applied to college - from 1998 through Sept. 13 of this year, Amrhein (AM-rine) said. It also involved anyone who had a college savings account under the START Saving Program or who applied for the TOPS scholarship program in those years. The data included Social Security numbers for applicants and their parents; the bank account information for START account holders also was involved. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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