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BaltimoreBearcat
10-31-2007, 01:22 AM
That said you personal info had been lost/stolen? I graduated 10 years ago. Why is my info on a freaking thumb drive?:confused:
UCBearcat4ever
10-31-2007, 11:31 AM
That said you personal info had been lost/stolen? I graduated 10 years ago. Why is my info on a freaking thumb drive?:confused:

am a current student, got one of those letters a couple of weeks ago.
qsilvr2531
10-31-2007, 11:49 AM
That said you personal info had been lost/stolen? I graduated 10 years ago. Why is my info on a freaking thumb drive?:confused:

Are you sure your information was lost on the thumb drive? I think most of the older students information that was lost was due to paper files being improperly destroyed before selling some old filing cabinets. The thumb drive info was college specific (I can't remember which college though).
BaltimoreBearcat
10-31-2007, 01:41 PM
Thanks guys.
mlb
10-31-2007, 02:26 PM
I haven't heard anything... apparently my data wasn't lost.
daaphearthrob
10-31-2007, 02:48 PM
i got one of those letters too. my letter said it was a thumb drive that was stolen as well... so annoying. i'm very careful as to how i use my info and then my dumbass alma mater goes and leaves me vulnerable. i just contacted my credit bureau, not much else i can do.

why in the **** does UC use you're social security number as your student ID??? I assumed this was common practice, but it seems so stupid. I'm supposed to keep my SS card in a safe place, but i plaster the number all over every test i ever took at college. dumb.
CroninCrazy
10-31-2007, 05:43 PM
i got one of those letters too. my letter said it was a thumb drive that was stolen as well... so annoying. i'm very careful as to how i use my info and then my dumbass alma mater goes and leaves me vulnerable. i just contacted my credit bureau, not much else i can do.

why in the **** does UC use you're social security number as your student ID??? I assumed this was common practice, but it seems so stupid. I'm supposed to keep my SS card in a safe place, but i plaster the number all over every test i ever took at college. dumb.

Starting last year, UC gave you an M0..... number to each student, instead of your social. I always hated putting my SS number on papers because who knows who else could see it.
daaphearthrob
11-02-2007, 12:15 PM
nice to know they finally got around to giving people actual student ID numbers.
Lobot
11-02-2007, 01:58 PM
Per Greg Hand, if you were not in UCOL you're data is not in danger. He stated this to me in an email in reply to some questions I asked him.
BaltimoreBearcat
11-02-2007, 08:53 PM
Per Greg Hand, if you were not in UCOL you're data is not in danger. He stated this to me in an email in reply to some questions I asked him.

UCOL? What might that stand for. I have a feeling I am about to feel stupid.
Lobot
11-03-2007, 03:21 AM
University College on the main campus which is now ?CATS? off campus
Brian H.
11-05-2007, 12:20 PM
My information was in the filing cabinets according to an email I received. They said the cabinet was full of copies of student insurance cards which in most cases contained Social Security numbers or your parents Social Security numbers if you were on your parents insurance.

I was never a part of University College so I guess that part was specific to the thumb drive.