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UConn: 10, 200 applicants' data on stolen computer
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:34:44 -0400
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news14462.html University of Connecticut officials say the names and Social Security numbers of almost 10,200 applicants were on a computer reported stolen from the West Hartford regional campus, The Associated Press reports. UConn officials said Thursday that no one has tried so far to get into the university's computer systems with the laptop. It was stolen Aug. 3 from a storage cabinet. The university is also offering to pay for two years of credit monitoring for the 10,174 applicants whose personal identification was on the computer. They had applied to attend the regional campus between 2004 and July 30 of this year. [..]
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