KS: 128 students' social security numbers exposed on Web site

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://media.www.kstatecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1022/news/2007/11/16/TodaysNews/128-Students.Social.Security.Numbers.Exposed.On.Web.Site-3107518.shtml

K-State's Office of International Programs and International Student 
Center are notifying 128 international students that their Social Security 
numbers were exposed through a K-State Web site.

The students, who were in the English Language Program, had their 
information "inadvertently exposed" through a K-State Web site that 
started with a routine server upgrade in November 2006 that extended about 
one year, according to a Media Relations and Marketing press release 
Thursday.

Only international students were affected because the exposed Social 
Security numbers came from test scores on the English language proficiency 
test, said Lynn Carlin, interim vice provost for Information Technology 
Services. All data has been removed from the Web site.

"We don't have any evidence that the students' information has been 
misused," she said.

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