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Students Expose Themselves On Education Site
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2006-08-29
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During what it called a routine software upgrade, the U.S. Department of Education said a glitch may have exposed the personal information of some 21,000 students looking to make payments on their student loans.
Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. revealed that a coding error caused the glitch between late Sunday and early Monday morning.
The Dept. of Education says that in order for a student's personal information to have been exposed, they would have had to have been on the same page as another student performing the exact same step in the payment process.
"The identified Web pages have been disabled and are not going back online until we are 100% satisfied that this problem will not happen again," spokeswoman Jane Glickman told Computerworld.
Those who could be affected have been identified and Glickman says they will be notified. The 21,000 students represents one half of one percent of the website's users.
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