University of North Carolina School of the Arts Exposes 3,000 Past Students to Identity Theft

Almost 3,000 past students of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts are being notified of a possible security data breach involving their personal information. This information, which includes names and Social Security numbers, was made public when a computer server went online.

It is unknown if the information was or has been used for malicious fraudulent activity, but officials are taking the proper steps to notify those who may have been affected and to contact the credit reporting agencies and make them aware of the data breach.

The university takes their student’s data protection very seriously, and has taken steps with their IT department to ensure a similar situation does not happen in the future.

Even though the university is contacting the credit bureaus we strongly suggest you place a fraud alert on your account or have a credit protection service do this on your behalf.