Monday, February 18, 2008

Harvard Web site hacked

On Monday, <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/article/184750/Harvard_Web_Site_Hacked_Database_on_File_Sharing_Site">one of Harvard University's Web sites appeared to have been hacked,</A> with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network.

A compressed 125MB file claiming to be the database for the Web site of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is available via the BitTorrent P-to-P (peer to peer) network. The file is listed on The Pirate Bay, a Web site that indexes torrents, or small information files that coordinate the download of content from other users on BitTorrent.

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