Glitch reveals too much on Education Dept. website

The Boston Globe reports:

Nancy Newark, a Boston lawyer, just wanted to change the phone number listed on the federal government website where she manages her student loans.

But when she clicked ``update" on Monday night, she saw someone else's Social Security number, date of birth, and other personal information. She clicked three more times, each time, getting a new person's information -- and enough of it, she said, to commit identity theft.

``How many opportunities were there for how many individuals to be provided with my information?" Newark asked.

A federal Department of Education official said yesterday that a routine software upgrade made Sunday night introduced a bug into the system that mixed up the data of different borrowers.

Will socialized American medicine be any more secure?