Computer files lost at Maryville

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Chicago Breaking News
Staff report
March 25, 2011

A Des Plaines-based social service agency that serves abused children 
announced today that computer files containing personal and medical 
information on almost 4,000 children who lived at agency facilities dating 
back to 1992 are missing.

Maryville Academy, which last year worked with about 1,600 children in 
residential, shelter and hospital programs, lost three files with 
information on about 3,900 people, the agency said in an email this 
afternoon. The files were either stolen or misplaced.

The files were in a locked storage room in Maryville?s facility in Des 
Plaines. The agency is investigating how they may have disappeared, Sister 
Catherine F. Ryan, Maryville?s executive director, said in the statement.

Data in the files may include birth dates, relatives? names, Social 
Security numbers, medical treatment and other information.

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