CA: Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/personal-data-of-cal-poly-pomona-applicants-inadvertently-put-online.html

The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at 
least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years 
ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today.

The applicants were notified this week and urged to contact 
credit-reporting agencies, school official said.

The personal information, which did not include financial data, .was 
mistakenly put in a publicly accessible folder on a university server in 
November 2003, and Google and other search-engine companies mined the 
data, according to a statement released by Tim Lynch, senior media 
communications coordinator for Cal Poly Pomona.

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