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URI took a publicly available server offline after a breach compromised the information of faculty and students.
University of Rhode Island (URI) officials disabled the school's College of Business Administration computer server, after the personal information of more than 1,000 faculty and students, as well as students from another school, was publicly available.
How many victims?
About 1,000 current and former URI faculty members, in addition to 22 former students of the university and 80 students from an unnamed out-of-state school.
What type of personal information? The names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and some compensation information of faculty members.
Former URI students had their Social Security numbers and names exposed, while students from the out-of-state school had their grades, names and Social Security numbers posted to the server.
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