[Dataloss] Personal information of 2, 100 VCU students exposed online

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BY GARY ROBERTSON
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Sep 1, 2006

Human error caused the names, Social Security numbers and e-mail addresses 
of about 2,100 current and former Virginia Commonwealth University 
students to be available online for eight months, the school says.

VCU announced yesterday that it is contacting affected students, but there 
is no indication that their information has been viewed or used.

According to VCU, the personal information of freshmen and graduate 
engineering students from the fall semester of 1998 through 2005 was 
unintentionally placed in a folder available on the Internet.

VCU said the problem was discovered Tuesday by a student who Googled her 
name and found personal information. The data became exposed in January 
when files on a School of Engineering server were moved to an insecure 
folder.

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