HI: Chaminade posted Social Security numbers of thousands of students online

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/69438757.html

Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, 
including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web 
site for months, school officials said today.

The posting of a report with the information was discovered  Wednesday and 
the report was taken off the Web site and links disabled.

An investigation determined the report was placed on obscure -- though 
publicly accessible -- Web pages because of human error, according to a 
university news release. The information was accessible for about eight 
months, although there is no evidence of its use, officials said. The 
university estimates that personally identifiable data for 4,500 students 
were in the report.

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