MADISON, Wis. – An accidental leak of personal information may have affected nearly 530 University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, or more than twice as many as previously reported, an official acknowledged Tuesday.
The university said earlier this month that the mistake in which Social Security-based ID numbers, e-mail addresses and other information was published on an Internet site affected only about 200 faculty and staff.
The university notified 205 employees that their information may have been exposed by an online database that tracked purchases from a campus computer shop. That information was inadvertently posted on a university Web site and available to the world for a year.