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Univ. of Virginia Student Financial Services
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:35:14 -0500 (EST)
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=28435&pid=1507 Notifications from Student Financial Services intended for students whose registration was blocked were erroneously sent to the wrong students in emails that included others' Social Security numbers. Student Financial Services intended to send 1,264 emails to alert students of registration blocks. Only 632 e-mails were actually sent out late Tuesday evening. These e-mails contained the student IDs of the 632 other students, who never received an e-mail. The mistake was not discovered until the next morning. University spokesperson Carol Wood said that Student Financial Services discovered the error Wednesday morning and began correcting the action immediately by contacting the Information Technology and Communications Office security department, which could investigate and fix the problem. The mistake was a result of an error on the part of a computer programmer, who neglected to review the program before it was used, Wood said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 140 million compromised records in 455 incidents over 6 years.
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