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Former JHU grad students’ personal data exposed online

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Dissent

Pamela reports:

More than 2,000 Social Security numbers of former Johns Hopkins University graduate students were exposed to potential hackers, the university confirmed Saturday.

Hopkins officials discovered on March 19 that the names and Social Security numbers of 2,166 former students were stored on a server that was accessible to the Internet, said Dennis O’Shea, a university spokesman.

Read more on Baltimore Sun.


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