Data Leak Hits 20,000 Tasmania University Students

In this photo Illustration hands type on a computer keyboard in Berlin, Germany, on June 22, 2016. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images

Personal information belonging to almost 20,000 University of Tasmania (UTAS) students was mistakenly made public for more than five months due to security settings being configured incorrectly.

Affected students were informed of the breach on Sept. 21, which made their data available to anyone with a UTAS email address from late February to Aug. 11.