Seton Hall University has acknowledged having inadvertently emailed an Excel document containing personal data on 1,500 seniors to 400 students.

"It seems that the document, which contained the names, addresses, emails, student ID numbers, majors, credit hours and grade point averages of students identified as seniors got attached to the email [by] mistake," writes Softpedia's Lucian Constantin.

"Interim Provost Larry A. Robinson later sent another email entitled 'Security Incident,' advising the 400 unintended recipients not to open, view, forward, send, discuss or distribute the spreadsheet," Constantin writes.

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