Vermont college mistakenly posts students’ personal information.

Vermont Technical College, located in Randolph Center, VT, mistakenly posted every student’s Social Security number on the Internet for almost two years, college officials said. The data, along with names, addresses, SAT scores and ethnicities, were removed last week, and there was no indication that the information was downloaded by identity thieves, officials said. The 2003 information was publicly posted in January 2004 when the college’s coordinator of tutoring services tried to direct it to a secure computer drive but inadvertently sent it to the public Website instead, college President Allan Rodgers said. The error was discovered last week by a former student who plugged his own name into the Google search engine.
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