KY: EKU posted about 5, 000 Social Security numbers online for a year

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/947409.html

The names and Social Security numbers of about 5,000 Eastern Kentucky 
University faculty, staff and student workers were posted inadvertently on 
the Internet last September, where they have been displayed for a year, 
according to EKU President Doug Whitlock.

There's no evidence the information was accessed or replicated, Whitlock 
said in a campus-wide e-mail sent Tuesday. He sent letters to all 5,045 
people on the list, all of whom were on the EKU payroll in 2007-08. The 
information was posted Sept. 29, 2008, and discovered Sept. 18.

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