March 16, 2001

Students Fault Indiana for Delay in Telling Them About Stolen Files

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Stolen computer files containing the names and Social Security numbers of 3,100 Indiana University students were sent over the Internet on February 6 to several overseas computers, but administrators did not notify the students until more than two weeks after the file transfer was discovered.

Some students whose names were in the files have complained that the university did not tell them quickly enough. But officials at the university's Bloomington campus,

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