CO: Personal Information of Hundreds of UCCS Students May Be Compromised

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/51897687.html

Hundreds of UCCS students are being notified that their personal 
information may have been compromised in a recent theft at the university.

This is the press release sent by UCCS:

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has notified 766 students 
who attended the university between 2003 and 2009 that a faculty member.s 
stolen laptop may have contained personal information.

UCCS Police and Information Technology staff members are assisting 
Colorado Springs Police in the investigation of a July 5 residential 
burglary where two computers were stolen from the home of a university 
faculty member. A computer is believed to have contained student 
information, including names and grades, of 766 students enrolled at UCCS 
between 2003 and 2009. The information was kept as part of class rosters.

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