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PA: Professor's laptops stolen; contained unsecured student information
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:36:53 +0000 (UTC)
(from Carnegie Mellon University's student newspaper) http://www.thetartan.org/2007/10/8/news/laptop The first weekend in September was notable for most students as it was the end of the first week of classes. For a small percentage of the student body population, it was the weekend that their social security numbers left campus, stored in the unencrypted files of two stolen laptop computers. According to University Police reports filed on Sept. 2, the laptops were stolen from the office of a computer science professor in Wean Hall. The door is believed to have been locked and there were no signs of forced entry, according to case officer Lieutenant John Race of the Carnegie Mellon University Police. [.] Students whose social security numbers were stored on the stolen computers were informed of the theft on the weekend of Sept. 29. The e-mail provided students with general information about the theft as well as a website address through which they could set up a Fraud Alert system on their banking and credit accounts which would notify them of any suspicious credit patterns in the future. Further protective action was left to the discretion of the individual student. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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