VA: Stolen VCU computer exposes Social Security numbers

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/VCUUGATER05_20090605-115401/272056/

Virginia Commonwealth University is notifying 17,214 current and former 
students of a security breach that may have exposed their Social Security 
numbers.

VCU is offering a year of free identity-theft insurance after a desktop 
computer was stolen from a secured area with Cabell Library in mid-April.

The computer may have contained student names, Social Security numbers and 
test scores dating from October 2005 to the present. VCU discontinued use 
of Social Security numbers as ID numbers in January 2007.

VCU spokeswoman Pam Lepley said letters notifying those affected were 
mailed Thursday.

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