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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials at Pitt Community College say the personal information of at least 5,300 former students may be at risk because a device containing their information has been lost.
Rick Owens, the college's vice president of administrative services, told local media outlets that the information was placed on a thumb drive and was supposed to be transferred to a secure location, but was lost before it got there.
Owens said the school has talked to the employee who lost the thumb drive. He said the school doesn't believe it was stolen.
Administrators say former students who completed the GED at the school between January 1967 and December 2001 may be at risk. The thumb drive contains their full names, social security numbers and addresses at the time they took the test.
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