WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- Georgetown University (GU) released a statement to the GU community saying a group of about 29 current or recent students accessed unauthorized data that contained sensitive and academic information. GU said that after a maintenance and outage period of the Banner student information system, a group of student users in the GU Experience platform were able to access sensitive personally identifiable and academic information. The university said it was done through a setting change that allowed the group with GU IDs to get access to data that only administrative staff has access to. Child taken to hospital following shooting in Prince George’s County According to GU, students accessed the information between 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16 and 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17. GU said the access setting was fixed by 8:30 a.m. on Thursday. The University made contact with the people who may have been involved and told them to delete any information they may have gotten. The University said in the statement: Using, sharing, or saving any of this data could violate University policy and have legal ramifications. We will follow up with more information for users whose data may have been exposed.We take data security and the privacy of our students very seriously. We recognize this is unsettling news and regret that this occurred. We will continue to investigate this data exposure and implement safeguards to prevent it from happening in the future. We will provide additional information as it becomes available." Doug LittleChief Information Officer, University Information Services, Georgetown University.