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Software Malfunction Exposes Student Information

The San Francisco school system recently experienced a software malfunction which left students`, and teachers`, private information for all to access and see using bogus password provided by the software application. School administrators have disabled the software, and are working to fix the problem so the system can be up and running again - this time, without glitches.

Officials from the San Francisco Unified School District report that they immediately shut down access to the Online Assessment Reporting System, or OARS, after receiving complaints that anyone could access confidential information with generic passwords that was to be issued only to teachers.

`It`s going to be disabled until every teacher is given an individual, random password,` says David Campos, the district`s chief counsel. `It should be running again sometime next week, but it seems like this could be a problem for other districts as well,` he adds.

The software application stored such information as student test scores, identification numbers, and private information concerning their academic progress. Teacher names and employee identification numbers were also revealed in the mishap. According to company officials, the software used in the mishap is indeed safe and the servers are protected around the clock.