Personal data of students, staff may have been exposed on Web site
February 10, 2007 07:00 EST

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- East Carolina University administrators are notifying students, former students and employees about a programming error that may have exposed personal data on a university Web site.

About 65-thousand people will receive notification letters from the university giving them tips on how to check for identity theft.

Officials say access to personal information in university files was available for a week last month.

The system was shut down within 15 minutes after the problem was reported and has since been corrected.

University officials say they are working to cut down on the use of Social Security numbers for identification.

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