Louisiana: SS numbers accessed

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.iberianet.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/news/news15.txt

Rosters containing information, including Social Security numbers, of 
about 380 St. Mary Parish public school employees were accessed March 19 
by a Yahoo! Web page search engine crawler.

St. Mary Parish schools Superintendent Donald Aguillard said the crawler 
violated the school district Web page by accessing a database that stored 
2002 through 2004 staff development rosters.

"These files were previously secure," Aguillard said. "Yahoo!'s new 
aggressive Web crawler infiltrated the public server and our technology 
department responded immediately to the breach in security by addressing 
the following: Contacting Yahoo! and demanding that our information be 
stricken from cached files, notified all workshop participants of the 
possibility that their personal information was revealed, while also 
contacting the Web page archiving services and demanding the removal of 
our cached pages."

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