Student SSN Breach

frazzled1
Sat, 20 Jul 2013 09:57:31 +0000

My daughter is a student at the Law School and was also affected. This episode reminds me of the olden days when our first daughter was applying to colleges, and every piece of paper in the application had to be headed with the student’s social security number as an identifier. From Dr. Turner’s earlier statement:

When the University provided student information to Aetna for this mailing, we inadvertently used an out-of-date computer program that automatically included Social Security numbers along with names and mailing addresses. In recent years, we have almost completely eliminated Social Security numbers as student-identifiers, although we still have numbers in some cases that are required. For example, Federal student financial aid requires a Social Security number, and the numbers are needed for some health care transactions.