JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The $332 million JAX Federal Credit Unionhas found itself in the uncomfortable position of having to notify7,500 members that their CU inadvertently exposed some of theirpersonal data on the Web search engine Google.

The exposure occurred during a data transfer mix-up with aprinter, a spokesman for the CU explained, and both the CU and theprinter are investigating what happened and how anything similarcan be prevented from happening in the future. The CU was sendingdata to the printer for a mailing of a pre-approved car loan offer,according to Angie Coleman-Rao, vice president of marketing for theCU.

She said Google had been extraordinarily responsive in removingthe information as soon as the CU followed the procedure forletting the search engine know it was there. She said the CU wasstill investigating how the data had wound up on Google and that itwas highly unlikely anyone could have used it, even if they hadfound it.

The credit union has responded to the exposure by offering theimpacted members two free years of a subscription to Lifelock, aservice that markets itself as the nation's first identity theftprevention service, the CU said.