University Posts Info Of 40K Students

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The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of
more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted
online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The
Associated Press has learned.

University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently
uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on
Nov. 30, 2009, exposing the names, academic performance, disabilities
and other sensitive information of 40,101 students who attended the
flagship Manoa campus from 1990 to 1998 and in 2001. A handful of
students from the West Oahu campus were included in the security
breach.
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