The Ellis County Press: BREAKING: 24,903 student social security numbers missing in Laredo Independent School District

BREAKING: 24,903 student social security numbers missing in Laredo Independent
School District
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Emily Ramshaw - eramshaw@texastribune.org on 03/23/2011 09:31:00


LAREDO —  A disk holding the social security numbers of every student in the
Laredo Independent School District — a total of 24,903 — is missing,
according to the Texas Education Agency.
TEA officials said they first learned of the possible security breach in
January, when the University of Texas at Dallas contacted them looking for
sensitive data university researchers had requested from Laredo ISD.
That data, which was supposed to be delivered to the TEA first, never made it to
the agency.