UTAH STOLEN COMPUTER WORRIES SLCC STUDENTS Laptop theft worries SLCC students - Salt Lake Tribune
"I'm upset that they're not telling me everything that happened," the SLCC student said.
Greenlief said the school called him early last week and instructed him to change the password he uses to access his student page on the SLCC Web site due to a possible security breach.
SLCC acknowledged a laptop had been stolen, but spokesman Joy Tlou said the school is still unsure whether the laptop taken from the Continuing Community Education of SLCC's Miller campus in Sandy contained internal log-in information for about 1,000 students, faculty and staff.
"We know which computer it was and we are trying to ascertain what information was on that computer," Tlou said.
Within a matter of hours of the computer's disappearance, the school began to contact all subscribers to the SLCC Web site through telephone calls, e-mails and a notice on the site.
"By the end of the next day, we called more than 25,000 people," he said.
Student Dan Behunin said that although SLCC officials tried to assuage his concerns, he's still worried someone may have access to information on his student account.
"That information is crucial,"Behunin said. "That could ruin you"
Tlou said even if log-in information were on the laptop, it "may or may not have been accessible because of the security measures that were already placed on that machine." "We have done everything we possibly can to make sure everyone is physically safe and that their information is safe," Tlou said. "I can't stress enough that is our No. 1 priority."
He added that the security concern prompted SLCC to accelerate a planned policy change that will require all college personnel to change passwords every 90 days.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Laptop theft worries SLCC students
Article Last Updated: 02/26/2008 06:26:49 PM MST
Posted: 6:27 PM- Marty Greenlief is concerned his personal information may have been compromised after a laptop disappeared at Salt Lake Community College.
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Data And/Or Identity Theft Issue
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