More proof that the FedGovs can't be trusted to keep your data safe


This time is is Department of Education loans

These are not the people you want protecting your vital information.

Federal Student Aid recipients who between Sunday and Tuesday accessed one of six Web pages on the Department of Education site may have had their personal information exposed to others, said Lesley Pool, a spokeswoman for software company Affiliated Computer Services. ACS created the technology for the Direct Loan Servicing feature on the Department of Education's site.

A person who logged on or tried to access parts of the site at the same time as another user may have viewed sensitive information entered by the previous person, such as name, Social Security number and birth date, Pool said.

"A fix went in on Tuesday morning, and we think it's been fixed. But we're doing more testing, and until there is 100 percent certainty, the (payment and account) functionality has been taken offline," she said. "It is up to the (Education) Department to say when the code is ready to go."

Like that? "We think it's been fixed."

Imagine the outrage in Congress if American Express had said something like that.

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