![]() ![]() But university IT officials were unaware of the change, Peters told the Daily News. In September 2010, Google made a change that allowed its search engine to index and find FTP servers. The embarrassing thing for Yale is that its stuff sat out in the open for 10 months before someone noticed. In this latest case, Google made a change that allowed it to index and find FTP servers. A couple years ago, for example, Google made an algorithm change that buried some of our content and led to a steep traffic drop off. Those of us in the online publishing business know all too well what can happen if Google makes the slightest of back-end changes. This seems to have resulted from one of the nuttiest, most random actions imaginable. The sad fact is that this could have happened to any institution. It wouldn't help the victims or change the outcome anyway. I don’t think Yale needs to be demonized over this. The online publication reported that Yale IT Services Director Len Peters said the FTP server holding the compromised information was used mainly for open-source materials. The breach resulted when a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server on which the data was stored became searchable via Google as the result of a change the search engine giant made last September, the Yale Daily News reported. Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months. ![]()
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