Computer breach prompts BC to limit Social Security data
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | March 18, 2005
While Boston College warns 120,000 alumni that their Social Security numbers may have been stolen by Internet thieves, computer administrators at other Boston-area colleges say they long ago took steps to reduce the threat.
James Stone, director of consulting services for the Office of Information Technology at Boston University, said his school and many others throughout the United States once routinely used Social Security numbers for identification on internal files and documents. But by the late 1990s, BU officials began to doubt the wisdom of this approach.
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