On August 31, 2007, the Liberty coalition discovered files posted on rutgers.edu that contain sensitive personal information. The four files appear to contain the full names, social security numbers, assignment scores, test scores, course grades, and other highly sensitive information for up to 227 students at Rutgers University. The files largely appear to be grading sheets for students of Wenxuan (Bill) Zhang, PhD Candidate/Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science.
Mr. Zhang, the University, and the FBI were all notified. Mr. Zhang acted immediately to take the files off line, and the university requested major search engines clear their caches, which appeared to clear after roughly two weeks.
Individuals affected by this breach can search for their names at www.ssnbreach.org.