APNewsBreak: University posts info of 40K students
By Jaymes SongAssociated Press Writer / October 29, 2010
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HONOLULU—The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The Associated Press has learned.
University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on Nov. 30, 2009, exposing the names, academic performance, disabilities and other sensitive information of 40,101 students who attended the flagship Manoa campus from 1990 to 1998 and in 2001. A handful of students from the West Oahu campus were included in the security breach.
UH-West Oahu spokesman Ryan Mielke said there was no evidence that
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