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Personal data on 2,100 VCU students shows up on Google
Posted on Sep 1, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Someone at the school accidently put personal information including SSN in the wrong folder on a web server. Google slurped them up and the info was online for over 8 months! TimesDispatch.com reports:
Human error caused the names, Social Security numbers and e-mail addresses of about 2,100 current and former Virginia Commonwealth University students to be available online for eight months, the school says.
According to VCU, the personal information of freshmen and graduate engineering students from the fall semester of 1998 through 2005 was unintentionally placed in a folder available on the Internet.
VCU said the problem was discovered Tuesday by a student who Googled her name and found personal information. The data became exposed in January when files on a School of Engineering server were moved to an insecure folder.
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