A federal indictment accuses nine employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa of illegally gaining access to President Obama’s student-loan records, the Des Moines Register reported. None of the accused have entered pleas, and none of them commented to the newspaper on the allegations against them.
The federal database that contains information on millions of student borrowers has been the focus of security concerns before. In 2007, the department acknowledged it had found 261 cases in which lenders or marketers were suspected of using the system to improperly collect information on potential borrowers.
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