[Dataloss] 9 years of La. applicants' data lost

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/5222008.html

Sensitive data for virtually all Louisiana college applicants and their 
parents over the past nine years were in a case lost last month during a 
move, officials said.

The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance was advised to not 
say how many records were involved and the media format in which they were 
stored, Executive Director Melanie Amrhein said Wednesday. The state 
Attorney General's Office is investigating the loss.

The lost case held backup data for every Louisiana application for federal 
student aid - just about anyone who applied to college - from 1998 through 
Sept. 13 of this year, Amrhein (AM-rine) said. It also involved anyone who 
had a college savings account under the START Saving Program or who 
applied for the TOPS scholarship program in those years.

The data included Social Security numbers for applicants and their 
parents; the bank account information for START account holders also was 
involved.

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