The Princeton Review, a test-preparatory and academic evaluation organization, accidentally published the personal data and test scores of over one hundred thousand Florida and Virginia students on its web site. For seven weeks hundreds of files on the company’s computer network were accidentally left open to the public. One file on the site contained information on about 34,000 students in Sarasota, Florida where the Princeton Review was hired to measure students’ progress. Another folder contained the names and birth dates of 74,000 students in the school system of Fairfax County, Virginia, which had hired the Princeton Review to measure and improve student performance. In addition to personal student information, the site also contained the educational materials for the LSAT, PSAT and SAT exams, internal analysis of the company’s instructors, and the entire texts of some Princeton Review books. The error was discovered by a rival preparatory firm that requested to remain anonymous.

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