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.
On the Net: Parking Mailer Identity Alert: http://www.transportation.umd.edu/parkingmailer/
