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IN: Parents worried about info breach at college savings program

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dissent

WTHR reports:

… Outside one of the nation’s largest student loan servicing centers is a warning: someone’s watching. But it’s the inside job David Miller is concerned about. He just learned the 529 College Savings accounts for his 16-year-old son Zach and 13-year-old son Noah were breached.

The suspect is an employee at another Sallie Mae spin-off in Massachusetts – College Choice.

[…]

In a letter sent to more than 300 parents, College Choice admitted an employee with its program manager, UPromise Investments, accessed names, social security numbers, birthdays and other contact information for seven months while on the job.

“We have details, controls in place and were suspicious of something and immediately acted upon them,” said UPromise spokesperson Debbie Hohler in a phone interview. “And placed withdraw holds on all potentially affected accounts.”

Read more on WTHR.

Neither CollegeChoice, which is sponsored by the State of Indiana, nor Upromise, a Sallie Mae program, seem to have any statements up on their web sites about this breach.

Update: Upromise filed a somewhat terse notification with the NH Attorney General’s Office on July 28. That report indicates that letters were sent to those affected on June 23, 2011.

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