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MO: Former SEMO Employee Found with Data Files of Personal Information of Students


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:45:07 +0000 (UTC)


http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=8541051&nav=menu51_2_3_2

Hundreds of students received an identity theft warning following a 
security breach at Southeast Missouri State University.

According to the school, a grand jury in Georgia indicted a former worker 
on three felony counts.

[.]

Dr. Holt thinks the 800 or so students were random targets.

"It isn't as though he picked a numerical portion of social security 
numbers or an alphabetic range, there's no logic to it,"  said Holt.

[...]
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