Law Schools
Harvard Law Warns Legal Services Clients of Lost Personal Data
Posted Nov 6, 2008, 10:28 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Harvard Law School is warning thousands of clients at one of its legal services clinics that it has lost a backup computer tape containing Social Security numbers and other personal data.
A technician lost the tape on the subway, the Boston Globe reports.
The tape from the school’s legal clinic in Jamaica Plain contained Social Security numbers of about 8,000 clients and personal information for about 13,000 others, spokesman Robert London told the newspaper.
London said identity theft is unlikely because the database is password protected and cannot be read without special equipment. The school will pay for a credit monitoring service for one year for those whose Social Security numbers were on the tapes.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
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