http://www.cnbc.com/id/44206510/Yale_Security_Breach_Reveals_Data_About_Students_and_Staff By John Carney Senior Editor, CNBC.com 19 Aug 2011 Yale University recently sent letters to alumni, faculty and staff informing them that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 people affiliated with Yale have been available to Google search engine users for the past 10 months. "A Yale computer file that contained your name and Social Security number was stored for 10 months in a way that left it accessible to Google Internet searches," the letter explained. "The computer file was created in 1999 and was inadvertently moved to an insecure section of a computer server in July 2005. At that point, the file was no longer fully protected but could not be located by an ordinary Internet search engine. The situation changed in September 2010, when Google modified its search engine in a way that allowed it to locate files stored on servers like the one holding this file." The letter came from Yale's Information Technology Services Director Len Peters. It offers those whose information was made available two years of free identity theft insurance. "We have no indication that your information has been misused," the letter read. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Mon Aug 22 2011 - 00:37:19 PDT
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