The University of Maryland Department of Transportation Services accidentally printed the social security numbers of nearly 24,000 students on mailing labels for parking brochures. The brochures were sent out on July 1st and the error was not discovered until a week later when students began calling with complaints. A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation Services said that when an employee collected names and addresses for parking brochures, social security numbers and email addresses that appeared along with the data should have been removed but were not. The university will offer free Equifax reports – a service that will allow students to monitor their credit and/or place a fraud alert on their account – to students who were affected by the mishap.

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