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

["B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>]

I'm up at SourceBoston right now with limited access - what are the
FERPA repercussions for this breach?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:58 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.
>
>  [...]
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