February 20, 2008

Harvard site leaked to Bit Torrent

The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences may not be the most secure place on earth but never the less you would have thought that their internet security as with any other educational institution would be up to date and capable of doing the job, but sadly it seem that it is not.

The schools website has been hacked recently and some of the content, three files which contained a site database, contacts and some minor things, whatever they are. But to everyone’s embarrassment this document is now being leaked onto Bit Torrent.

The Pirate Bay are in there tracking the torrent which although is small around 125 Mbs it still contains some sensitive content like usernames and passwords etc. to make things worse for the school the site has now been taken down while they try to plug the holes that have been breached.

Source [Devicepedia]