18,000 Metro Nashville Students and 6,000 Parents Have Their Personal Information Exposed on Google

Information of over 18,000 Metro Nashville students and over 6,000 parents was accessible through a simple Google search for over three months.

The information was found by a private contractor, Public Consulting Group, and removed from Google at their request.

Due to this security breach, credit monitoring services will be offered for free to help protect their information, although there are no signs that the information has been used inappropriately at this time.

It should be noted that credit monitoring only informs you after the fact of an identity theft situation and that children generally don’t have a credit report. This should be confirmed though and monitored to make sure that one doesn’t come about illegally. An identity theft protection service such as LifeLock or TrustedID would be more effective for children then credit monitoring.