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High school teacher inadvertedly leaked private information about 14,000 pupils
Personal information about a total of 14,598 high school students were leaked on the net, from the private laptop of a male teacher employed at a high school in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, the Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday.
According to the Aichi Prefecture Board of Education, the leaked information consisted of the names, addresses, grades, what university they applied for and whether they got accepted or not, etc. On Sunday, it was also learned that the results of an intelligence test some students had been made to take was among the leaked information.
The responsible teacher was in charge of the guidance councelling at the school, and said he had saved the files onto his private laptop to make hand-outs, using the data contained in them. Reportedly, the files were accidentally leaked on to the net Wednesday thorugh a file-sharing program called “Share” and through a computer virus.
According to the school’s rules, teachers have to make a note in a register and get the permission from the vice principial every time they bring data about school students outside of the school grounds, something the responsible teacher had failed to do.
The school’s head master has apologized for the mishap.
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