The IT Security Blog Roundup

More to worry about that grades, tuition and books

There are some phrases we reporters type so much, we could easily write them up in our sleep.

Add to the list “personal information of college students breached.”

Last month, a laptop was stolen from the home of a professor at Louisiana State University, breaching the personal information of about 750 students there.

The laptop likely contained students’ Social Security numbers, full names and grades, according to this report in the Daily Reveille.

Meanwhile, the names and Social Security numbers of more than 5,600 students at the University of New Mexico were disclosed when they were unintentionally posted to the school’s website, according to this report in the Free New Mexican.

University officials said the odds are minimal that any of the info was misused because they information, which included names and Social Security numbers, were only on the site for a few hours. Phew!

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