[Dataloss] Update: Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent

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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.

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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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