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Third Case of Computer Theft at High School
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:48:11 -0500 (EST)
http://www.wcbd.com/midatlantic/cbd/news.apx.-content-articles-CBD-2007-01-03-0015.html North Charleston police are trying to find out who stole a laptop computer from Academic Magnet High School. That computer contains personal information about hundreds of students. This theft is actually the third time someone has stolen computers from this school. November 17th-- someone stole a desktop computer from a guidance counselors office. November 30th-- someone stole three monitors and two laptops from the media center. Over the holidays-- someone stole a lap top again from the same guidance counselors office. School officials say parents and students have nothing to worry about. [...] Schools officials and police say someone broke into the school and stole a lap top from a guidance counselors office. Charleston County school representative Jerry Adams says that computer contained personal information for about 500 students who go to that school. But he says that information should be safe no matter whose hands it falls into. Identity theft and privacy issues concern us, said Adams. But we don't think its an issue because the information is password protected and encrypted. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 524 incidents over 6 years.
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