Penn State Students Social Security Numbers Compromised

A Penn State professor’s grade book from 2001 to 2004 that contained 303 students’ social security numbers, among other personal information, was found to be compromised by a computer virus in the last couple of months.

Penn State Security Operations and Services (SOS) discovered the incident and immediately took the personal information offline, Penn State spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said.

“We have no reason to believe that this information was accessed by anyone,” Mountz said.

But as a precaution, the 303 individuals were notified via e-mail, Mountz said.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/11/26/students_social_security_numbe.aspx

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