Students Accidentally E-mailed Personal Information On Thousands of UIUC Students
Quick Facts
- Date: 8/27/2007
- Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: 5,247
- Source: Pogo Was Right
- Abstract Source: The News-Gazette
Abstract
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign officials are apologizing to students after an e-mail to 700 College of Engineering students about a new Lego Robotics class was found to contain the personal information of 5,247 students. The e-mail contained a spreadsheet that a staff member used to gather e-mail address. Along with e-mail address, the spreadsheet contained other personal information including name, major, gender, race and ethnicity, class, date admitted, spring 2007 grade point average, and cumulative GPA as well as local address and phone number. The mistake was identified almost immediately after the 7:51am was sent out. By 10:08am the University issued another e-mail to the student that received the spreadsheet asking them to delete the file and the original e-mail message. UIUC officials are meeting to discuss how to best notify the affected students.
