Computer security at Tech questioned

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http://www.dchieftain.com/dc/index.php/news/2263-computer-security-at-tech-questioned.html

A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech's Computer Center may have
allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be
publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly
five years.

William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech
Community College instructor and current Tech student, said he found
copies of an accounting file containing more than 3,000 Social
Security numbers stored in two locations on a publicly searchable disk
on the TCC server.

Tech's Public Information Officer, Thom Guengerich, said the problem
has been taken care of.

"We don't dispute that some files were accidentally and inadvertently
made open," Guengerich said, in a telephone interview on Thursday,
Oct. 14. "When it came to the university's attention, they were
deleted."
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