{"id":9068,"date":"2012-06-01T00:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T05:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2012-06-01T22:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T03:57:44","slug":"students-warned-personal-information-could-have-been-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/students-warned-personal-information-could-have-been-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Warned About
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\"\"<\/a>School District spokesperson Joe Donzelli said, \u201cIt was discovered that social security numbers, addresses, and other information were all accessible on a classroom computer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Lee County students are learning this week their sensitive information could have been leaked.<\/p>\n

Mary Escobar is one of more than 1,200 GED program students who received letters from the district, alerting them their information could be compromised.<\/p>\n

“I was just shocked. I was thrown back,” Escobar said. “People get their identity stolen every day. Identity theft is a real big thing.”<\/p>\n

District spokesperson Donzelli said the security breach was discovered when a GED student found a file containing the information on a classroom computer.<\/p>\n

“The information was accessed by a student who, within three to five minutes, told his teacher about it,” Donzelli says.<\/p>\n

Donzelli said he is unsure how the file became available on the computer but says it was immediately removed. The district does not believe the information ever left the room.<\/p>\n

“They were not connected to a printer, so nothing could be printed out,” Donzelli said. “There were no email archives or data trails of emails sent from those computers.”<\/p>\n

According to Donzelli, the school district is now triple-checking computers before they are issued to students. The district will notify the IRS of the situation and encourages students who received letters to place a fraud alert on their credit file.<\/p>\n

“Social security numbers, birthdays, addresses, names, marital statuses. That’s enough to do somebody some harm,” Escobar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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