[Dataloss] KS: 128 students' social security numbers exposed on Web site
lyger
lyger at attrition.org
Fri Nov 16 17:15:22 UTC 2007
http://media.www.kstatecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1022/news/2007/11/16/TodaysNews/128-Students.Social.Security.Numbers.Exposed.On.Web.Site-3107518.shtml
K-State's Office of International Programs and International Student
Center are notifying 128 international students that their Social Security
numbers were exposed through a K-State Web site.
The students, who were in the English Language Program, had their
information "inadvertently exposed" through a K-State Web site that
started with a routine server upgrade in November 2006 that extended about
one year, according to a Media Relations and Marketing press release
Thursday.
Only international students were affected because the exposed Social
Security numbers came from test scores on the English language proficiency
test, said Lynn Carlin, interim vice provost for Information Technology
Services. All data has been removed from the Web site.
"We don't have any evidence that the students' information has been
misused," she said.
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