Stolen Computers Contain Student Information
Submitted by Adam Dodge on Fri, 2006-09-08 01:00
Quick Facts
- Date: 09/08/2006
- Institution: University of Minnesota
- Type of Incident: Theft
- Number Affected: 13,084 (including 603 Social Security Numbers)
- Source: Attrition.org
- Abstract Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
Abstract
Two computers stolen from desk of a program coordinator within University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology contained personal data on over 13,000 students who joined the University between 1992 and 2006. Birth dates, phone numbers, high school information, grades and test scores were some of the data contained on these laptops. Also on these laptops were the Social Security numbers on roughly 600 students. The University sent out letters on August 30th to notify students of the potential risk. While the University no longer uses Social Security numbers as student identifiers, older records did contain this information.