The personal information of 90,000 people in a Stony Brook University database was accidentally posted to Google and left there until it was discovered almost two weeks later - read more: sbindependent.org
Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "Stony Brook University is being disingenuous in its claim that the details posted to a web server were visible on Google only via multiple search criteria. That's what search engines do: they search on multiple criteria. Let's hope that Google is no longer publishing this data via its cached site facility."
Sam Gerrans welcomes invitations to write and comment in the English-language press on the information leakage prevention and detection market and related technologies: sam.gerrans@infowatch.com
