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NY: Personal Information of up to 90, 000 Compromised at Stony Brook


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:04:50 +0000 (UTC)


http://www.sbindependent.org/node/1850

The personal information of 90,000 people in a Stony Brook University 
database was accidentally posted to Google left there until it was 
discovered almost two weeks later.

According to a website set up by the university, Social Security numbers 
and university ID numbers of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other 
members of the community were visible on Google after they were posted to 
a Health Sciences Library web server on April 11.

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