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No misuse reported from EIU computer theft

By KATE HENDERSON, Staff Writerkhenderson@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON -- No misuse has been reported nearly two months after a computer containing confidential information about students was stolen from the Student Life Office at Eastern Illinois University.

Norma Taylor, the secretary in the Student Life Office, said no students have reported having any problems with identity theft.

Adam Due, EIU Police Department chief, said he isn’t aware of any reports either.

But Due said they still don’t have any leads as to who took the computer.

Near the end of January, letters were distributed to approximately 1,400 EIU students notifying them that confidential information, including their Social Security numbers, were stored on a desktop computer stolen from the university’s Student Life office.

According to Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs, someone broke into the office and removed the password-protected desktop computer and the hard drive and memory from two others. The office is located on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.

While the two individual hard drives contained only general correspondence, the desktop computer contained membership rosters from Eastern’s 23 fraternities and sororities. The database contained personal information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses, of each member.

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