A project intended to reuse paper from campus offices at Memorial University of Newfoundland has accidentally breached some students' privacy.

Some on-campus offices donated used paper to be made into notebooks as part of a project called the "Better Side," but some of that paper included private information.

One sheet included "a portion of the first page of a loan application," said Ivan Muzychka, the university's associate director of communications. That page included names, addresses and social insurance numbers.

Most offices screened the paper before donating it to the notebook project, Muzychka said, but the student union submitted paper to the project from a fax machine that was used by many students.

The project has been suspended.

Students who have been affected by this are being contacted, and the university is asking people who have the notebooks to return them.

The university is notifying the province's privacy commissioner about the breach.