Students Personal Data Available Online

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Asahi: Private information on 110,000 students leaked on Internet
Private information on all 110,000 students enrolled in Kanagawa prefectural senior high schools in fiscal 2006 was leaked -- and remains -- on the Internet...The information includes the students' names, addresses, telephone numbers and bank account numbers used for paying tuition. The board of education, IBM Japan and other parties concerned have been unable to remove the data...The Kanagawa board of education plans to send letters to all people who were in senior high schools run by the prefecture in fiscal 2006 to apologize and ask them to consider changing their bank accounts. The data remains available to anyone with file-sharing software...IBM Japan asked the person who made information on 2,000 students available on Share to stop offering the data online. However, the request, which was made through an Internet service provider, was rejected. IBM Japan's request for the person's name was also turned down...more...