Student Grades, SSNs Found on University of Hoston Math Web Site
Submitted by Adam Dodge on Wed, 2008-07-23 11:00
Quick Facts
- Date: 7/23/08
- Institution: University of Houston
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: 259
- Source: SSNBreach.org
- Abstract Source: SSNBreach.org Media Release
Abstract
The Liberty Coalition recently announced that it had discovered personal student information on a University of Houston Mathematics Professor's web site in late May 2008. The files, belonging to Marjorie Marks, contained the names, Social Security numbers and grades of 259 students enrolled in the Fall 2005 Math 1310 course. While the university responded quickly to remove the files, search engine caches were not cleared until July 2008.