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Georgetown University says group of students accessed unauthorized data containing sensitive academic information

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Georgetown University says group of students accessed unauthorized data containing sensitive academic information

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Georgetown University (GU) released a statement to the GU community indicating that a group of approximately 29 current or recent students accessed unauthorized data containing sensitive and academic information.

GU said that after a period of maintenance and outage of the Banner student information system, a group of student users of the GU Experience platform were able to access sensitive personal and academic information.

The university said this was done through a setting change that allowed the group with a GU ID to access data that only administrative staff have access to.

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According to GU, students accessed the information between 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 16 and 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 17.

GU said the access setting was corrected at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

The University has contacted those potentially involved and asked them to remove any information they may have obtained.

The University said in the release:

Using, sharing, or storing this data may violate University policy and could result in legal consequences. We will provide more information to users whose data may have been exposed.

We take data security and the privacy of our students very seriously. We recognize that this is troubling news and regret that this has happened. We will continue to investigate this data exposure and implement protective measures to prevent this from happening in the future. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.

Doug Petit
Chief Information Officer, University Information Services, Georgetown University.

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