[Dataloss] follow-up: MSU reveals fourth personal-data security breach in one month

[security curmudgeon]

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By Gail Schontzler
Chronicle Staff Writer
November 07, 2007

Montana State University is sending letters to 271 students and MSU 
employees to warn them that their Social Security numbers might have been 
exposed because of three separate security breaches.

One breach dates to 2002. Another involves an MSU employee's stolen laptop 
computer. MSU announced the latest breaches in a news release Tuesday, 
four weeks after another security breach that affected 1,400 people.

There's no evidence that anyone's personal information has been stolen by 
identity thieves, but MSU can't prove that didn't happen, said Jim Rimpau, 
the university's chief information officer. University officials wanted to 
act conservatively and alert people so they could check on their credit 
reports to make sure no one had stolen their personal information.

What a horrible couple of weeks it's been, Rimpau said.

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