Vermont College Publicly Posted Sensitive Student Data For Nearly Two Years

School officials say Vermont Technical College mistakenly posted every student's Social Security number on the Internet for almost two years.

Officials say the data, along with names, addresses, SAT scores and ethnicities, were removed last week. There is no indication the information was downloaded by identity thieves.

College President Allan Rodgers says the 2003 information was publicly posted in January 2004, after the college's coordinator of tutoring services tried to direct it to a secure computer drive, but inadvertently sent it to the public Website instead.

The error was discovered last week by a former student who plugged his own name into the Google search engine.