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Data Breach Alert: Hundreds of college seniors impacted in potential Wellesley College data breach
February 29th, 2008 - Posted by Joe
The Boston Herald is reporting that the personal information of nearly 500 Wellesley College seniors may have been compromised this month.
After receiving flu shots at a local health clinic last fall the personal information of about 480 students was sent to a regional Medicare office for processing. When an envelope arrived it had been opened and the personal information, including social security numbers, addresses and dates of birth, was gone.
All impacted students are in the process of being notified by the clinic and the USPS has launched an investigation to determine if the data loss was caused by identity thieves or mechanical failure in the processing of the envelope.
Learn more about the risks of identity theft in our identity theft protection guide.
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
[...] This is the third data breach we have reported on in 2008 involving a higher education institution. We had previously posted data breach alerts impacted Wellesley College and Harvard University students. Please share this post: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]