IL: UI students' information accidentally sent with e-mail

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

(addresses and grades seem fairly fringe, but still of interest)

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/08/27/students_information_accidentally_sent

An e-mail sent Friday to about 700 University of Illinois engineering 
students contained a spreadsheet listing personal information, including 
addresses and grade point averages, of thousands of students.

The spreadsheet attached to the mass mail did not contain Social Security 
numbers or the students' university identification numbers.

  "It was a mistake, an accident. It was completely unintentional," said UI 
spokeswoman Robin Kaler.

A College of Engineering staff person sent a mass e-mail at 7:51 a.m. on 
Friday to all electrical and computer engineering students. The note was 
to inform the 714 students about a new class on Lego robotics.

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