Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Data Exposed
--Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Data Exposed
(7 February 2007)
The SSNs of 72 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) students, faculty and staff were inadvertently posted on the university's public web site; the information had been accessible for more than two years when the problem was discovered earlier this week. The university sent notification letters to those affected by the data security breach. A similar incident occurred at UNL less than a year ago. In March 2006, the university discovered that the SSNs, email addresses and GPAs of nearly 350 engineering students had been accidentally posted to the web.
The university periodically scans its web site for SSNs; the numbers exposed in the latest incident were not caught because they did not contain the usual two dashes that normally appear in the numbers.
(7 February 2007)
The SSNs of 72 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) students, faculty and staff were inadvertently posted on the university's public web site; the information had been accessible for more than two years when the problem was discovered earlier this week. The university sent notification letters to those affected by the data security breach. A similar incident occurred at UNL less than a year ago. In March 2006, the university discovered that the SSNs, email addresses and GPAs of nearly 350 engineering students had been accidentally posted to the web.
The university periodically scans its web site for SSNs; the numbers exposed in the latest incident were not caught because they did not contain the usual two dashes that normally appear in the numbers.
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