But university IT officials were unaware of the change, Peters told the Daily News. In September 2010, Google made a change that allowed its search engine to index and find FTP servers. The online publication reported that Yale IT Services Director Len Peters said the FTP server holding the compromised information was used mainly for open-source materials. The breach resulted when a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server on which the data was stored became searchable via Google as the result of a change the search engine giant made last September, the Yale Daily News reported. Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months. I’ll give you italicized bits from the story Computerworld colleague and friend Jaikumar Vijayan broke yesterday, followed by some observations. This latest incident shows that some messages need to be repeated frequently. We’ve written a lot about the dangers Google can pose. ![]() For an institution like Yale University, home of legendary secret society Skull and Bones, this must be especially painful: A data breach in which sensitive information sat exposed on the Internet for 10 months.
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