[Dataloss] NY: LIU: Defect puts students at risk of ID theft

[lyger]

(A new breach type category... "missing adhesive".)

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liiden125573734feb12,0,6745463.story

Long Island University has sent letters to 25,000 to 30,000 students 
informing them that tax forms mailed to them last week in "defective 
mailers" might have led to identity theft, and recommended that students 
put fraud alerts on their credit files.

The mailers containing each student's annual 1098-T "Tuition Statement" 
were supposed to have adhesive on all four sides. But one side of each 
envelope was missing adhesive, according to LIU officials, which caused 
about half of the statements to be damaged by U.S. Postal Service 
processing machinery.

A 1098-T tuition statement, which has to be sent to every student who paid 
tuition in the 2007 calendar year and postmarked by Jan. 31, contains the 
student's name, address and Social Security number.

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