I 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: "Thou

I 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."