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Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess

Alister

you have to wonder why sensitive data was stored in a spreadsheet in the first place

Well I don't find it particularly surprising, whether it's correct or not is another matter, but collating and storing student's marks in a spreadsheet doesn't sound wildly improbable, and it's a bit of a stretch to consider that information "sensitive". As noted above, it used to be common for student grades to be posted on a noticeboard for all to see.

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