[Dataloss] PA: 5, 000 student loan customers' info on stolen laptop

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804836-96.stm

The theft of one laptop computer has resulted in compromising the personal 
information of more than 5,000 student loan customers.

American Education Services -- the revenue-generating arm of the 
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency -- has sent letters to 
5,184 student loan customers telling them that their personal information 
was on a laptop stolen in a burglary at a subcontractor's headquarters in 
Livermore, Calif.

The subcontractor is Vista Financial Inc., a subsidiary of Performant 
Financial Corp.

The information, which was not encrypted, included name, address, phone 
number, e-mail address and Social Security number.

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