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Privacy Breaches May Expose More Social Security Data At Penn State

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Dissent

Adam Smeltz reports:

As many as 25,572 Social Security numbers once stored on Penn State computer systems may have been exposed during security breaches in recent weeks, the university reported Wednesday.

But Penn State has no evidence that any unauthorized people have accessed the Social Security numbers, which appear to belong to alumni, spokesman Geoff Rushton said. He said the breaches happened when malicious software infected two computers — one each in the university libraries and the Outreach Market Research and Data office.

Read more on StateCollege.com

Update 6-3-2010: Centre Daily reports that 15,800 are being notified.

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