Vincent Arnold

One of Harvard University’s Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network.

A compressed 125 M-byte 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.

Source: Network World

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 1:23 am and is filed under Security Breach.