February 22, 2002

College Reveals Students' Social Security Numbers

By DAN CARNEVALE

A computer glitch at Floyd College briefly made the Social Security numbers of 125 continuing-education students available on the Internet last month.

The Georgia institution had just installed a new search engine on its Web site when officials there were alerted that the engine could pull up a page that lists students' Social Security numbers in addition to their names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

Randy Pierce, president of the college, said the search engine had

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