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German IT-news-site heise.de is reporting on it, I guess there'll be an english translation soon.

http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Studenten-entdecken-Tau...

Original (German language) press release is here: http://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/news/article/nr/12173.html

And it's not just small stuff either, 8 million phone numbers and addresses in one case. That is beyond embarrassing.

What is even more embarrassing, is the lack of proper acknowledgment from the French Telecommunication provider (Bouygues Telecom?) regarding the safety of their customers' data.

Lol I remember finding back in 92 that the ITU's gopher server had all of my employers x.500 directory - a more inocent time :-)

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