Iowa: UI warns research subjects of possible security breach

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/60929003/1079

> From University News Services:

The University of Iowa is contacting subjects in research studies 
following attacks on a computer in which personal information about those 
subjects was stored.

The computer, used by UI psychology professor Michael O'Hara and UI 
psychiatry professor Scott Stuart, contained the Social Security numbers 
of some 14,500 subjects who were participants in research studies on 
maternal and child health from 1995 until the present.

"All persons whose information may have possibly been exposed are being 
notified and advised on what actions they may take to protect their 
confidential information," said O'Hara.

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