Ben Grubb reports:
NSW acting privacy commissioner John McAteer today said that his office was “examining” a data breach through which the detailed records of thousands of University of Sydney students past and present were leaked.
The records were being stored online where they could be downloaded easily and read via an internet connection.
It is understood the university was told about this security threat in February 2007, but did not move to secure the information.
Details openly available on the university site include a student’s full name, residential address, email address, which courses he/she studied and how much the course cost.
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