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

[Peter Moody]

huh, this got marked as spam apparently.

so this isn't a cache removal, right? it's the snippet data you're
concerned about? I'll forward it along; the group that handles this is
unfortunately a complete black hole.

Cheers,
/peter

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Steve Romig<romig.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
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> 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
>
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>> 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
>>
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