Stolen Student-Loan Data Are Found in Hands of Minnesota Police

Personal information on 3.3 million student-loan borrowers, stolen last month from ECMC Group Inc., a student-loan-guarantee agency in Minneapolis, has turned up in a police evidence room, the Associated Press reported today. The information, which was held in two safes, was recovered shortly after the theft, on the weekend of March 20-21, and has been in the Minneapolis police’s evidence room since then. The data do not appear to be compromised, ECMC said in a written statement.