Georgetown University officials announced Tuesday that a hard drive stolen from the Student Affairs Office contained personal data on 38,000 students, faculty and staff, according to The Hoya, Georgetown's student newspaper.
On Jan. 3, officials alerted Georgetown's public safety department, the Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service, which deals with potential misuse of private information, about the theft, The Hoya reported.
The university admitted to having students' Social Security numbers on the hard drive and added that it was not encrypted.
David Lambert, vice president and chief information officer for University Information Services at Georgetown, told The Hoya he could not remember if the hard drive was password-protected.
-CHRISTOPHER COTTRELL
