IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A University of Iowa employee mistakenly sent an email to 2,000 undergraduate students that included a document showing all of their grade-point averages, a privacy breach that school officials disclosed Thursday.

An administrative assistant new to her job at the Center for Diversity and Enrichment sent the email Wednesday afternoon that included a spreadsheet containing their names, number of credit hours and GPAs. School officials discovered the privacy breach Thursday morning after a student complained to a university vice president.

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