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Colorado College Warns 93,000 After Laptop Theft

Robert McMillan writes on NetworkWorld:

A state college in Denver believes it may have lost sensitive information on more than 93,000 students after one of the school's laptop computers was stolen from an employee's home late last month.

The unnamed employee of Metropolitan State College had been using the information, including student names and Social Security numbers, to write a grant proposal, the college said Thursday. The data, which appears to have been unencrypted, was also being used by the employee to write a master's degree thesis, the school said.

The laptop was stolen on Feb. 25, but Denver police asked the school to wait until March 1 to go public with news of the theft to help with the ongoing investigation. Students who registered for Metropolitan State courses between the 1996 fall semester and the 2005 summer semester are now being notified of the incident via letter, the college said.

posted by Fergie @ 3/03/2006 05:12:00 PM