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In Push For Data, Schools Expose Students To Identity Theft

The more data schools collect about students — particularly Social Security numbers — the more those databases become a target for hackers.


In El Paso, Texas, a hacker broke into the computer network of a local school district, finding a database of about 63,000 students’ Social Security numbers. In Wake County, N.C., school officials accidentally mailed out about 5,000 postcards with students’ Social Security numbers printed on the front.

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