MSU reveals fourth personal-data security breach in one month
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By Gail Schontzler
Chronicle Staff Writer
November 07, 2007
Montana State University is sending letters to 271 students and MSU
employees to warn them that their Social Security numbers might have
been exposed because of three separate security breaches.
One breach dates to 2002. Another involves an MSU employee's stolen
laptop computer. MSU announced the latest breaches in a news release
Tuesday, four weeks after another security breach that affected 1,400
people.
There's no evidence that anyone's personal information has been stolen
by identity thieves, but MSU can't prove that didn't happen, said Jim
Rimpau, the university's chief information officer. University officials
wanted to act conservatively and alert people so they could check on
their credit reports to make sure no one had stolen their personal
information.