FL: Social Security numbers of former UF students leaked on Web site

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/11/21/news/campus/ssn.txt

More than 400 former UF students might have been put at risk for identity 
theft after their Social Security numbers were posted on UF's Computing & 
Networking Services Web site.

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All the individuals were former students of Richard Elnicki, a professor 
of information systems and operations management, and had taken classes 
ISM 4220 or ISM 4330 with him between 1998 and 2001, the release stated.

Many of the files had been online since 1998.

The release stated that the files were on a Computer & Networking Services 
server that required a password to upload files, though the public could 
download the files without a password.

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