Fergie's Tech Blog

University of Miami, Ohio, discloses privacy data exposure

Thanks to a post by "DutchSter" over on Slashdot, which reveals:

"In the wake of other schools announcing the theft of hardware containing sensitive student information, Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, has announced that a file containing the name, Social Security number, the grade point average for the Fall 2002 semester, cumulative grade point average, and other related academic information, such as credit hours attempted that semester, for all 21,000 students who attended the Fall 2002 term has been available on a web server for the last three years. The discovery was made this week and the university is taking steps to deal with the fall-out sure to come."

posted by Fergie @ 9/15/2005 07:01:00 PM