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Tuesday, July 09, 2002
Social Security Numbers Spilled by Small Telco
CNET NEWS.COM - Telecom firm leaks student data to Web.[Privacy Digest]A company that provides intra-campus telephone services to small colleges inadvertently posted online the names, addresses and social security numbers of thousands of its student customers, the firm acknowledged on Monday.
In the latest of what has become a common Internet problem, the information about more than 2,000 students whose schools use telecommunications management firm Resicom may have leaked out from the company's Web site. Database files containing students' personal information had the wrong permission settings and could have been accessed using any Web browser as late as Monday afternoon.
David Horn, the network and billing manager for the Doylestown, Penn., company was working to turn off access to the files Monday afternoon.
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