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Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:58:49 +0000 (UTC)
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. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
Current thread:
- Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent lyger (Mar 13)
- Re: Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent B.K. DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent Stian Øvrevåge (Mar 13)