From: Stian Øvrevåge (sovrevagegmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2008 - 15:45:18 CDT

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:58 PM, lyger <lygerattrition.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).

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