Dear LISD parents,
I hope you take seriously the potential consequences that can arise from the loss of your child's personal data. Your child's Social Security Number and Name (who knows what else was released, address, parents name?????) have been downloaded to a disc for some sort of research and then lost by the Texas Education Association (TEA) in Austin.
. Who knows where the disc is, and if it was copied. You must DEMAND that LISD provide you information as to what data on your child was given to TEA. The disc has been missing too long for you to assume that the data is not compromised. If you are smart, you will start running credit reports on your LISD child.
LISD is obviously downplaying this loss of information. But you should know that the name and social security number (with a clean credit report) are all that is needed to open quick credit card accounts with spending limits up to $1,000+ credit lines. A scammer can take that information and turn it into lots of cash. Also, what might happen if you child's data falls into the hands of document forgers. Your child and a person in this country illegally may share a name and social security number.
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