[Dataloss] Univ. of Virginia Student Financial Services

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http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=28435&pid=1507

Notifications from Student Financial Services intended for students
whose registration was blocked were erroneously sent to the wrong
students in emails that included others' Social Security numbers.

Student Financial Services intended to send 1,264 emails to alert
students of registration blocks. Only 632 e-mails were actually sent
out late Tuesday evening. These e-mails contained the student IDs of
the 632 other students, who never received an e-mail. The mistake was
not discovered until the next morning.

University spokesperson Carol Wood said that Student Financial
Services discovered the error Wednesday morning and began correcting
the action immediately by contacting the Information Technology and
Communications Office security department, which could investigate and
fix the problem.

The mistake was a result of an error on the part of a computer
programmer, who neglected to review the program before it was used,
Wood said.

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