About 38,000 alumni, students, and current and former employees of Georgetown University were told Tuesday that their personal data, including Social Security numbers, had fallen into the wrong hands. The information was stored on a computer hard drive that was apparently recently stolen from a locked room in the student-affairs office. The Washington police department is investigating the crime.
A Georgetown press release says university officials have no indication that anyone has misused the data. Officials are notifying those affected by the security breach and encouraging them to place a fraud alert on their credit reports. —Andrea L. Foster
