September 29, 2006

'More Holes Than a Pound of Swiss Cheese'

By PAULA WASLEY

Computer-protection problems at Ohio U. spark complaints from alumni — and firings

Linda Couture had been careful to protect herself from identity theft. She avoided both online shopping and banking. She made it a policy never to give out her Social Security number.

So it came as a shock when her alma mater, Ohio University, notified her in May that the data she strove to protect had been compromised in a vast computer-security breach. What made it worse, she says, is

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