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NC update: 600 students info listed online
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
"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 [...] 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. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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