This time it’s the Louisiana Board of Regents — an organization that oversees the state’s institutions of higher education — that has managed to expose personal information belonging to some 80,000 individuals to just about anyone who was able to stumble across it.

Although the information was part of an internal web site, the data was available to just about anyone on the Internet. This was demonstrated by the fact that a law student was able to access the information after finding evidence of it’s availability using the popular Internet search engine Google.

Believe me, if Google could access it, so could any number of crooks and criminals who routinely use the Internet to search for that kind of information! Sounds like a dream come true for an identity thief!

The data in question has since been removed and was brought to the attention of the offending organization by a local television station.

Apparently, this is an organization that needs to oversee its own activities a little more carefully.

And people wonder why some of us are so reluctant to give our personal information like social security numbers and birth dates when we visit a new doctor’s office or sign up for cable TV service or something.

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