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August 17, 2005

Identity theft is easy on campuses

Once you enroll in college, your personal information is kept in the college database. It is stored somewhere on disks, tapes, drives or whatever. Your data must be maintained, say what courses you completed with what grades, which ones you failed, what scholarships if any you get and so on. Along with your social security number, date of birth, addresses, etc.

Now, imagine how many financially naive students like yourself are studying around the country, I would say few millions. Each has a rather fat file stored somewhere in huge, decentralized database.

Add to it an abundance of computer equipment and you have a very lucrative target for identity theft types, and not surprisingly, roughly half of the publicized incidents of data breach since January happened at universities, according to the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center.

So once you are on campus, watch out.
Yahoo news.

Posted in Identity Theft at August 17, 2005 03:51 PM

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