Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Identity theft raises security worries

Alum alleges that perpetrators found his SSN on stolen Dean’s Office computers

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, September 17, 2007

Over 10,000 former and current students, faculty and staff received word from Yale last month that their Social Security numbers had been compromised after two computers were stolen from the Yale College Dean’s Office. Now, the identity of at least one of those people has been stolen — and he doesn’t think it’s a coincidence.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 is asking questions, too. In a letter to Yale President Richard Levin last week, he called the University’s response to the theft “inadequate” and asked that it provide identity theft insurance to all of...

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