Data Breach Alert: Torrance Unified School District

Posted by Joe on February 23rd, 2008

A hard drive containing personal information, including social security numbers, of about 2,200 employees of the Torrance Unified School District in Fullerton, CA was stolen. The information was being stored in the offices of Systematic Automation, a company that administers health benefits for the school district.

This is the second such data breach reported involving Systematic Automation in the month of February.

• Data Breach Alert: Stolen laptop impacts Virginia school employees
• Data Breach Alert: College students receive social security numbers of classmates over email
• Data Breach Alert: Utah hospital loses thousands of patient records
• Data Breach Alert: Medicade computers stolen in Texas
• Data Breach Alert: Millions at risk for identity theft due to supermarket chain data breach