Personal data on more than 24,000 employees of the University of Notre Dame was made available online for more than three years, from mid 2006 to late 2009.

“The breach resulted when an employee inadvertently posted files containing the names, Social Security numbers and zip codes of the employees on a publicly accessible university Web site,” writes Computerworld’s Jaikumar Vijayan. “Files containing the data are believed to have been posted on the site in August 2006 and remained there until this October… when they were finally discovered and reported to university officials.”

“The files have since been removed and secured and there is no evidence that the information has been inappropriately used, said Dennis Brown, Notre Dame’s assistant vice president for news and information,” Vijayan writes.

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