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DC: 38, 000 Social Security Numbers Potentially Exposed After Theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:49:22 +0000 (UTC)
http://thehoya.com/node/15151 A hard drive containing the Social Security numbers of nearly 40,000 Georgetown students, alumni, faculty and staff was reported stolen from the office of Student Affairs on Jan. 3, potentially exposing thousands of students to identity theft. The external hard drive, located on the fifth floor of the Leavey Center, was used to back up a computer that contained billing information for various student services, including activities fees and student health insurance, according to David Lambert, vice president and chief information officer for University Information Services. The university notified the Department of Public Safety, the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates possible misuse of private information, of the missing hard drive. The university has not learned of any reports of identity theft in the time since the hard drive's disappearance, Lambert said. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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