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Another School Exposes Private Information

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-door-admissions dept.

DutchSter writes "In the wake of other schools announcing the theft of hardware containing sensitive student information, Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, has announced that a file containing the name, Social Security number, the grade point average for the Fall 2002 semester, cumulative grade point average, and other related academic information, such as credit hours attempted that semester, for all 21,000 students who attended the Fall 2002 term has been available on a web server for the last three years. The discovery was made this week and the university is taking steps to deal with the fall-out sure to come."

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  1. Wow by XMetal2001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alright, My school is famous now! Quite a suprise when I saw Miami on Slashdot. Sadly its just an embarrassment. But yea, we are a relatively big school considering that alot of people haven't heard of us. Basically from what I heard prior to coming here we are known for being extremely preppy and having an endless supply of beautiful ladies :)

    1. Re:Wow by arthax0r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      In ohio? Are you kidding me? The armpit of the mid-west? The only hot things there are the coney-dogs and asphalt.

  2. Re:now that they've had their data exposed... by RollingThunder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You may want to sign up for remdial math and english, considering your salary figure was off by a factor of 1000, and salary has no "e" in it.

  3. "School"? by Maclir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does everyone refer to a University as "School"?