A laptop computer has gone missing from the grounds of the Rochester Institute of Technology. While the RIT breach does not affect all at RIT, a sizable part of the New York‑based institution’s populace is affected. Anyone who, going as far back as 1968, has applied to enroll at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf is affected—approximately 12, 700 people—as well as 1,100 others of the RIT community whose information was being used as part of a control group for some kind of internal study at RIT. While it has not alluded to, it seems pretty obvious to me that a laptop encryption solution like AlertBoot was not used to secure the contents of the now missing computer. The information that could end up being compromised includes names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.