Duquesne University officials might be a bit red-faced after they accidentally e-mailed a raft of confidential financial-aid documents to an unsuspecting student. But it looks like no real damage was done, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
The errant e-mail message, sent to an unidentified student this month, contained data from about 7,900 federal student-aid applications. Duquesne is going ahead and warning all of the applicants that their personal records were exposed.
But the applicants probably won’t have to place any panicked calls about their credit reports. The recipient of the e-mail message immediately deleted the sensitive data from his in box and got in touch with campus police, so none of the financial information made it out in the open. “We are lucky the student is honorable, came forward immediately, and has been completely cooperative,” said Bridget Fare, a Duquesne spokeswoman. —Brock Read
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