[nsp-sec] Fwd: Desperately need help removing data from Google...

[Steve Romig]

I sent this to Peter, haven't heard back - don't know whether he's out  
of the office, etc.  Is there someone from Google who can give us a  
hand here?  We're desperate...

--- Steve

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steve Romig <romig.1 at osu.edu>
> Date: August 13, 2009 4:29:15 PM EDT
> To: Peter Moody <pmoody at google.com>
> Subject: Desperately need help removing data from Google...
>
> Back in the Fall of 2008 we discovered an incident wherein student  
> health care information, sent to a contractor, was outsourced from  
> the contractor to a printer (to print insurance ID cards), one of  
> whose employees copied the data and later stuck it on their personal  
> web site on some ISP in Florida.
>
> We spent months trying to get this removed, finally found the  
> Florida web site guy, got him to request the removal of the  
> information from the Google cache, and we thought that everything  
> was good.  The site has since been taken down, so far as I know.
>
> Today, two of the individuals from the original incident googled  
> their names and found search hits from that original incident.  I've  
> done some poking around, and this is what I see:
>
> If you do a search for "inurl:osu2-tray3.vdp", "inurl:osu2- 
> tray5.vdp" or "inurl:osu2-tray10.vdp" you'll get a single hit each.   
> The original site was http://68.56.125.214/misc/trays/<filename>, I  
> think.  Searching on a name from one of those files will also get a  
> search hit.  None of them give you a "cache" link, and clicking on  
> the search hit goes nowhere since the original web server is gone,  
> so far as I know.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how we can have this quickly,  
> permanently removed from Google's database?  The files contain  
> names, (old) addresses and social security numbers for about 4000  
> OSU students/alumni.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Steve
>