A flash drive containing the name and social security number of students who resided in Capital Quad and Crawford residence halls last fall was recently misplaced. Although it may be possible this information could be accessed by unauthorized individuals, we have no evidence that it has been found or used by anyone. We are notifying you simply as a precaution.

We will notify the major credit reporting agencies and inform them that some of our students’ personal information may have been compromised. However, we recommend you place a "fraud alert" on your credit file with the three major credit bureaus. This is a free service that will request creditors to verify your identity before opening a new account. For instructions on how to use this service, please see the attached information or visit http://www.tntech.edu/securityID.

We regret what has happened and apologize for the inconvenience this may cause; however, we wanted you to be fully informed of any potential risk. Please be assured that the Residential Life department and TTU will continually review our processes in order to maintain personally identifiable information in a secure environment. Within the next few months, all of the student information in our campus databases will move to a new data system that replaces student social security numbers with individually assigned identification numbers.

We will keep you apprised of any further developments. If you’d like to discuss this further, please contact me at 372-3411 or mburnett@tntech.edu

Sincerely,

Marc Burnett
Vice President of Student Affairs