Montana Tech alumni information included in e-mail

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http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_8e384edc-5311-11df-807d-001cc4c002e0.html

BUTTE — A Montana Tech employee mistakenly included the personal
information of former students in an e-mail message sent to faculty,
staff and students last week.

Montana Tech administrator Maggie Peterson says the e-mail was an
invitation to watch students present their research projects. But the
file that this year's information was taken from included the names,
addresses, Social Security numbers and in some cases birth dates of
students whose research projects were done from 1998 through 2005.

The e-mail was sent out last Thursday. Chancellor Frank Gilmore says
the message was recalled. The school sent a letter to the 260 affected
students on Tuesday and is offering to pay the $9 cost of filing a
credit freeze for the affected alumni.
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