[March 30, 2007] Printing firm loses personal data of successful university applicants Tweet (Mainichi Daily News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) A floppy disc containing names and other private information of 972 people who passed entrance examinations for Waseda University's commerce faculty has been lost, it has emerged. Waseda University had employed a Tokyo-based company to print and send letters to the 972 examinees notifying them of their successful results. The company later told officials of the university that it had lost a floppy disc containing the names, addresses, and examinee numbers of the 972 people. "We don't know where it is now," an official of the company was quoted as telling the university. (Mainichi) [Mainichi Daily News / March 29] Copyright 2007 Mainichi Daily News. Source: Financial Times Information Limited - Asia Intelligence Wire. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]