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Re: Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent


From: "Stian Øvrevåge" <sovrevage () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:45:18 +0100

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:58 PM, lyger <lyger () attrition org> wrote:

 http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9893174-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

 Harvard says about 10,000 of last year's applicants may have had their
 personal information compromised. At least 6,600 Social Security numbers
 were exposed. Worse, a compressed 125 M-byte file containing the stolen
 student data is currently available via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer
 network.

 [.]

 A BitTorrent file containing the stolen data includes a note that reads in
 part "maybe you don't like it but this is to demonstrate that persons like
 tgatton(admin of the server) in they don't know how to secure a website."
 The BitTorrent file consists of a server backup of the GSAS site with a
 full directory structure and three databases: joomla.slq, the main
 database; contacts.sql which is a database of contacts; and hgs.sql, a
 miscellaneous file.

 [...]

According to http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4031271/harvard_s_hack the
file was published almost a month ago (16. feb).

-- 
Stian Øvrevåge
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