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Identity Alert

   This Web site has been established to provide information about an incident
   involving inadvertent exposure of student names and Social Security Numbers.
   The file involved included about 18,000 names of current and former Ohio
   State University students who were enrolled in the university-sponsored
   Student Health Insurance Plan during the 2005-2006 academic year (Autumn
   2005 through Summer 2006).

   On Dec. 30, 2008, the University mailed (via U.S Postal Service) letters to
   all students who were enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan during
   any of those four quarters. The addresses used were the “home” addresses
   supplied by the students to the University Registrar, with the exception of
   international students, for whom “local” addresses were used.

   The information was erroneously posted on an Internet server maintained by a
   company that had been doing work on behalf of Ohio State. The files and
   caches have been removed, and there is no evidence of fraudulent activity.
   However, in order to protect students and former students from possible
   identity fraud, the university is informing them of the incident and making
   free identity protection available for 12 months to those whose data was
   exposed.

   see F.A.Q.s for more details.

   © 2009, Office of Student Life

   If you have trouble accessing this page and need to request an alternate
   format,  please  contact  the  Student  Life  web  development team at
   info@studentlife.osu.edu.