TX: Identity theft may be problem for TAMUCC students

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http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6667387&nav=menu192_2

The personal information of thousands of students at Texas A&M Corpus Christi 
was recently lost in a foreign country. A professor vacationing off the coast 
of Africa took the data with him on a small computer storage device.

That device is missing, and Friday night, university officials are conceding 
that the personal information of just about every student on campus in 2006 is 
out there somewhere.

Dr. Blair Sterba-Boatwright is the chairman of the math department at the 
university. He is an active traveler and outdoor photographer. His most recent 
trip was to Madagascar off the coast of Africa.

University officials said he took with him a flash drive, containing the 
personal data of some 8,000 students to do some work while on vacation, but 
this week, the school is telling students that the flash drive was lost in 
Madascar, and officials said the device, "may have contained files with 
personally identifiable student information, including social security 
numbers."

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