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HK: Data of 15,000 NUS alumni leaked

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Dissent

Tan Weizhen reports:

Computer security is being beefed up across the National University of Singapore (NUS) after sensitive data of more than 15,000 alumni members was leaked in an e-mail.

On April1, the NUS Career Centre sent an e-mail to about 450 NUS alumni, all of whom graduated last year, to invite them to a job recruitment fair.

But the staff member accidentally attached a file full of personal information, such as home addresses, subject majors and phone numbers of 15,794 alumni members.

Read more on Asia One.

hat-tip, ESI

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