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Computers stolen from college financial aid office
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:02:03 -0500 (EST)
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/01/26/front/doc45ba618886459435458713.txt Two computers stolen from Vanguard University earlier this month have put more than 5,000 financial aid applicants at risk for identity theft, authorities said today. [...] University officials did not believe the computers kept financial aid data on their hard drives, Westbrook said. But last Friday they learned apparently the machines stored that information, including social security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, drivers license numbers and lists of assets. [...] Anyone who applied for financial aid at Vanguard University for the 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 school years is now at risk, he said. The 5,105 affected include even prospective students who may not have enrolled at Vanguard. Anyone applying now, however, is safe. [...] -- 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 145 million compromised records in 547 incidents over 7 years.
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