Have you received one of these letters? " Washington State Uni notifies those affected by stolen hard drive   Posted by  Dissent  at 3:47 am   Education Sector ,  Theft ,  U.S.   Add comments Jun 10 2017   PULLMAN, Wash. ,  June 9, 2017  — Today,  Washington State University  (WSU) announced that it is addressing a security incident involving certain community members’ personal information. Though there is no evidence the personal information has been accessed or misused, WSU is notifying impacted individuals and offering free identity protection services to those individuals whose personal information may have been accessed. On  April 21, 2017 , WSU learned that a locked safe containing a hard drive had been stolen. The hard drive was used to store backed-up files from a server used by the university’s Social & Economic Sciences Research Center (SESRC). Immediately upon learning of th...