[Dataloss] Minnesota - Thousands of students have IDs at risk after computer theft

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Courtesy PogoWasRight.org

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/15475291.htm

A pair of computers containing the personal information - in some cases 
Social Security numbers - of thousands of University of Minnesota students 
was stolen from a campus office. Now officials are scrambling to let past 
and present students know their identities may be in danger.

The computers, stolen in August from the desk of a program coordinator at 
the university's Institute of Technology, contained data on 13,084 
students who joined the school as freshmen between the fall of 1992 and 
2006.

Files included such information as names, birth dates, addresses, phone 
numbers, the high school they attended, student identification numbers, 
grades and test scores, and academic probation.

And, in hundreds of cases, Social Security numbers.

University spokesman Daniel Wolter said the university's main effort is 
focused on contacting 603 past students whose Social Security numbers were 
stolen.

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