Laptop with info on 1,400 students stolen at EIU

CHARLESTON – Eastern Illinois University has notified about 1,400 of its students after officials discovered a computer containing confidential information was stolen last week.

A laptop computer was stolen sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday from EIU's Office of Student Life, located on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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