From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Sat Nov 07 2009 - 13:36:20 CST

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Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information,
including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web
site for months, school officials said today.

The posting of a report with the information was discovered Wednesday and
the report was taken off the Web site and links disabled.

An investigation determined the report was placed on obscure -- though
publicly accessible -- Web pages because of human error, according to a
university news release. The information was accessible for about eight
months, although there is no evidence of its use, officials said. The
university estimates that personally identifiable data for 4,500 students
were in the report.

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