INDIVIDUAL STEALS AND RETURNS STORAGE DEVICE, CHARGED WITH FIFTH DEGREE THEFT

The Skills to Employment office in Iowa City’s Kirkwood Community College had a visiting individual steal a data device from a workforce counselor’s office. After noticing the mobile storage device missing, the employee contacted authorities and the individual returned the item within hours from the time it was removed from the office.

Although experts were unable to assure that none of the data was compromised or copied within this period of time, they are still taking the steps to protect those 1600 individuals and businesses that may be affected by this incident.

Kirkwood Community College is offering free credit monitoring services for one year to those individuals who had their sensitive information exposed. In the meantime, employees are being trained on data security and are no longer using portable storage devices in their offices.