[Dataloss] Personal data of NMSU students posted online
lyger
lyger at attrition.org
Thu Apr 19 15:48:23 UTC 2007
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/60444.html
The names and Social Security numbers of more than 5,600 New Mexico State
University students were accidentally posted on the school's Web site, but
officials say odds are minimal that any students' identities were
compromised.
The information was in a public section of the site for nearly two hours
on April 5 before the mistake was caught.
The file was accessed by 14 computers and all of their IP addresses have
been tracked, said Mrinal Virnave, NMSU's director of enterprise
application services.
Virnave said the file contained the names and Social Security numbers of
students who registered online to attend their commencement ceremonies
from 2003 to 2005, meaning most of the names and numbers are of former
students.
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