System misconfiguration and incorrect access settings are to blame for exposed data discovered by staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In two separate incidents, financial account numbers and about 350,000 Social Security numbers were posted inadvertently to the Internet, where it was publicly available. One of the exposures affected general university systems over a period of three months. The other pertained specifically to the university's College of Engineering systems over a period longer than a decade. ...
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