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So this archive page doesn't seem to contain any SSNs directly, right? you'd have to query for a teacher to actually see it.
by chizhik-pyzhik 5y ago
So this archive page doesn't seem to contain any SSNs directly, right? you'd have to query for a teacher to actually see it.
- kisamoto 5y agoWhile not immediately visible, all the names and SSNs are in embedded javascript so if you inspect the source they're all there. I presume this is a poorly executed attempt to be fast and responsive by "pre-loading" all of the data required and then using the search box as a filter on the client. Edit: My mistake - I misinterpreted wrong IDs, these are not immediately here.
- tantalor 5y agoWhere? The only ids I see in the HTML are for districts: <option value="048914">ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE - 048914</option> etc.
- anoonmoose 5y agoI think it is possible that there was SSN data poorly encoded into the source of the page or one of the scripts From the original Post-Dispatch article: "Though no private information was clearly visible nor searchable on any of the web pages, the newspaper found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved."