[m8rl]

German IT-news-site heise.de is reporting on it, I guess there'll be an english translation soon.

http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Studenten-entdecken-Tau...

Original (German language) press release is here: http://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/news/article/nr/12173.html

[fabian2k]

And it's not just small stuff either, 8 million phone numbers and addresses in one case. That is beyond embarrassing.

[Fiahil]

What is even more embarrassing, is the lack of proper acknowledgment from the French Telecommunication provider (Bouygues Telecom?) regarding the safety of their customers' data.

[spacecowboy_lon]

Lol I remember finding back in 92 that the ITU's gopher server had all of my employers x.500 directory - a more inocent time :-)