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Chaminade posted Social Security numbers of thousands of students online

By Star-Bulletin staff

POSTED: 06:01 p.m. HST, Nov 06, 2009

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Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web site for months, school officials said today.

The posting of a report with the information was discovered  Wednesday and the report was taken off the Web site and links disabled.

An investigation determined the report was placed on obscure -- though publicly accessible -- Web pages because of human error, according to a university news release. The information was accessible for about eight months, although there is no evidence of its use, officials said. The university estimates that personally identifiable data for 4,500 students were in the report. Those affected include undergraduate students who attended the university from 1997 to 2006.

Chaminade officials are putting in place procedures designed to prevent a recurrence and will provide additional training to staff regarding the protection of personal information, the university said.

The university is contacting the people whose information was put online. Those affected are being asked to monitor and review their credit report.

For more information, a Chaminade e-mail address has been set up at infosecure@chaminade.edu, as well as a Web page at www.chaminade.edu/infosecure.

Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web site for months, school officials said today.


The posting of a report with the information was discovered  Wednesday and the report was taken off the Web site and links disabled.

An investigation determined the report was placed on obscure -- though publicly accessible -- Web pages because of human error, according to a university news release. The information was accessible for about eight months, although there is no evidence of its use, officials said. The university estimates that personally identifiable data for 4,500 students were in the report. Those affected include undergraduate students who attended the university from 1997 to 2006.

Chaminade officials are putting in place procedures designed to prevent a recurrence and will provide additional training to staff regarding the protection of personal information, the university said.

The university is contacting the people whose information was put online. Those affected are being asked to monitor and review their credit report.

For more information, a Chaminade e-mail address has been set up at infosecure@chaminade.edu, as well as a Web page at www.chaminade.edu/infosecure.

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