Past employees of Roanoke City Public Schools are receiving free credit monitoring services after school officials ended up selling eight computers as surplus units. The hard drives of these computers still stored the personal information of school employees from 2006 onward, and included their names, locations, and Social Security numbers, leaving their personal information at risk for identity theft.
Since this incident occurred, the hard drives have been recovered by school officials, and it is believed that none of the data was used inappropriately. However, due to the questions and concerns the school has been receiving due to this incident, they are offering a year of free credit monitoring services to their employees to ensure that nothing is done with their information due to this data breach.
