Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), September 10th, 2006
Byline: Maura Lerner; Staff Writer
The University of Minnesota is notifying more than 13,000 past and present students that their personal information was on two Apple computers that were stolen from the Institute of Technology in mid-August.
Roughly 600 of them, all former students, have been warned to watch out for any suspicious activity on their credit reports because the stolen data included their Social Security numbers.
The university began sending thousands of letters Aug. 30, two weeks after an overnight break-in on Aug. 14-15 in a first-floor office of Lind Hall on the Minneapol...
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