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Jul 18, 2008 1:51 pm US/Eastern

University Of Md. Apologizes For Release Of Data

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) ―

The University of Maryland says it accidentally printed social security numbers on the outside of a mailing sent to all students.

The school says the brochure about on-campus parking went out July 1. It discovered a week later that each mailing label contained the recipient's social security number.

The university apologized in an e-mail to students Thursday and advised them to put a 90-day fraud alert on their consumer credit files. The school is also offering a one-year credit monitoring service from Equifax, at no charge to students.

The school says it has no information that any of the social security numbers have been misused.

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