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Friday, June 22, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010621/t000051515.html Thursday, June 21, 2001 UCLA Extension Halts Online Registration Technology: Campus officials try to fix glitch that showed students' personal and financial information on Web site. By JILL LEOVY, Times Staff Writer Prompted by three reports of private information exposed to the public on UCLA Extension's Web site, campus officials have shut down the site's registration function while they try to fix the problem and notify nearly 200 users. The decision came after three people who tried to sign up for extension classes Tuesday reported problems. At least two said they saw the name, birth date, Social Security and credit card numbers of the previous registrant displayed on the site. University officials say they have no evidence that other users encountered the problem or that hackers were involved. "From what we can tell this was something other than a widespread problem," said David Menninger, UCLA Extension associate dean....
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