Security breached at Florida university

MIAMI, June 11 (UPI) -- The University of Florida is notifying more than 11,000 current and former students of a security breach that compromised their personal information.

University officials say the information, which included Social Security numbers, was placed on a school tutoring site without a password, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

The site contained information about students at the school from 2003 to 2005 who expressed an interest in tutoring through the Office for Academic Support and Institutional Services.

"The risk of someone outside actually finding this information and using it inappropriately is very low," Steve Orlando, a university spokesman, told the Herald.

Orlando says the school doesn't have any evidence that the information was accessed but cannot be absolutely certain.

The site has been taken down and the information has been removed from the university system, the Herald report said.