[Dataloss] NC update: 600 students info listed online

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"Google broke through the password and username protected server..." ???

http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR/MGArticle/HDR_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188715461

BY LAUREN WILLIAMSON
Record Staff Writer
Saturday, June 24, 2006

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Q. What's on the screen?
A. The names, Social Security numbers and test scores of 619 current
and former students from Catawba County Schools. The students were
seventh- and eighth-grade students at Jacobs Fork, River Bend, Mill
Creek, Tuttle and H.M. Arndt middle schools during the 2001-02 school
year. The test scores were from a keyboarding and computer
applications placement test, so not every middle school student's
information was in the file.

Q. How did this happen?
A. School system officials say Google broke through the password and
username protected server the information was stored in and took a
photo of the page, which it posted to the Internet.

Q. What is cached?
A. Cache is a snapshot of a page of information available on the
Internet. Google's Web site said it takes photographs of pages as it crawls
the Web.

Q. What protection is there for students?
A. Superintendent Tim Markley said the school system stopped using student 
Social Security numbers as identification numbers during the 2001-02 
school year. Since then, every student is given a unique student ID 
number. All files in the DocuShare server that contain Social Security 
numbers have been or will be deleted.