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http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6079261.htmlAbout 1.3 million customers of a Texas provider of student loans are at risk of ID fraud, after a contractor lost computer equipment with sensitive information on them.
The equipment, which was not identified, contains the names and Social Security numbers of the borrowers, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan company said in a statement Tuesday. The hardware was lost by an employee of Hummingbird, a enterprise software company hired to prepare a document management system, it said.
Yet again, sensitive personal information vanishes due to massive incompetence.
Of course, when 26.5 million veterans' personal information was stolen, they http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/vets.data.reut/ [Broken] . I think one must be very conservative here.
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