[Dataloss] TX: Personal information of 259 UH students exposed online

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Fri Jul 25 11:41:14 UTC 2008


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5906640.html

The names and Social Security numbers of 259 University of Houston 
students were inadvertently posted on the Internet for more than two 
years, removed only after a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group 
discovered the breach.

The university removed the information from its servers as soon as it was 
notified in May, school officials said in a statement released Thursday.

It took almost two months longer to ensure it had been removed from other 
Internet search engines.

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