Wonderful! That's just the sort of news I've been waiting for. :-)
"An unpatched flaw in a Symantec Corp. anti-virus management console resulted in the compromise of a server containing the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 45,000 students at the University of Colorado at Boulder."
Click on the link below for the full article:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021059&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37
UPDATE
And a similarly embarrassing incident:
"A Symantec antivirus signature update has mistakenly quarantined two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, crippling thousands of PCs in China."
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62014805,00.htm
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