A Thief Makes Off With Sensitive Student Data

Here’s another good reason for colleges to try to keep sensitive data out of employees’ laptops: California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo has had to track down more than 3,000 current and former students whose Social Security numbers were stored on a computer stolen from a professor’s home.

The students whose information was exposed all took physics and astronomy courses under John Mottman, a professor at the university, between 1994 and 2004, reports The Tribune. After 2004, the institution stopped using Social Security numbers to identify students on class lists, according to campus officials. —Brock Read

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