Do Your Part: Prevent Identity Theft
Who: All students, faculty and staff members
What: Prevent Identity Theft
When: Available NOW (Jan 8, 2007)
How:
Protect Yourself, Others and the University from Identity Theft with Identity Finder!
Did You Know?
- Your computer might be storing personally identifiable information (PII) such as your Social Security Number, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and passwords without your knowledge
- If your computer or external media is lost, stolen or broken into over the Internet, someone might use it to steal your identity and the identities of anyone who shares your computer or whose personal information you might handle
- If you store sensitive PII for Carnegie Mellon work and your computer or external media is lost or compromised, the University is obligated under PA state law to notify everyone affected by the breach and could potentially be legally liable
- Over eight million Americans have their identities stolen annually and on average victims spend 600 hours clearing their good name -- Federal Trade Commission & Identity Theft Resource Center
What You Need To Do:
Do Your Part!
Clean Up Sensitive PII on Your Computer with Identity Finder!
NOTE: If your computer is managed by a Carnegie Mellon departmental computing administrator, please consult that person before making ANY system changes.
Contact:
Please direct any questions or comments to the Information Security Office at iso-identityfinder@andrew.cmu.edu, or to your departmental administrator or DSP consultant.
More Information:
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