[pchelpers] News:Student info published online in security breach

Tens of thousands of students in a southwest Florida were impacted
By Christine Armario 

updated 11:50 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2008

TAMPA, Fla. - Tens of thousands of students in a southwest Florida
school district who used an online Princeton Review program to study for
the state's annual assessment test inadvertently had their names, birth
dates and test scores published on the Web.

Superintendent Lori White of the Sarasota school district said
approximately 34,000 students in the second through 10th grades were
impacted by the breach, which apparently occurred as the test
preparation company moved its Web hosting to a new provider.

>From late June until this Monday, information including how students had
answered the test preparation questions, their ethnicity, gender, and
state ID — which in Florida is almost exactly the same as their Social
Security number — was online, White said.

More here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26312675/

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