* The newspaper said it found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved. In other words, the informati

* The newspaper said it found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved. In other words, the information was available to anyone with a web browser who happened to also examine the site’s public code using Developer Tools or simply right-clicking on the page and viewing the source code.* The state's website was sending SSNs to the browser of every visitor. Visitors didn't ask for that info but got it anyway. Everything the state sent was viewable thru View Source.