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WI: UW-Madison privacy leak was bigger than previously described


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC)


http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7791239

An accidental leak of personal information on the Internet could have 
affected more than twice as many UW-Madison employees as previously 
reported.

University spokesman Brian Rust says the Social Security-based campus ID 
numbers of 529 employees might have been posted on a campus Web site over 
the course of a year.

But he says the university decided to notify only the 205 employees whose 
information was most likely seen on the site.

[...]
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