Princeton Review’s Publishing Blunder

Posted on August 19, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Nikki Martinez

Princeton Review, test prep service and Holy Grail of reliably pertinent college information, accidentally published the personal info and standardized test scores of thousands of Florida students on their website. Another test prep company stumbled upon the file while doing competitive research and provided the web address to The New York Times.

The breached files included students’ birthdays, ethnicities, whether they had learning disabilities, and their scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, among other confidential data. The site had the student data because Sarasota’s public schools hired them to build an online tool to help the county measure students’ academic progress. Princeton Review’s CFO says all of that data should have been password-protected but probably lost the protection when the site moved to a new Internet provider. Smooth move, PR. Maybe a bit more attention to students’ private material and a little less on fine-tuning selections for categories like “Reefer Madness“?

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  1. Test Prep Central · Princeton Review’s Publishing Blunder on August 19th, 2008 2:19 pm

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