I ran into this article on the WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty comical. Their website for their Graduate School or the Arts was compromised on Sunday, and don’t get me wrong that parts not funny by any means, but the comedy of this story is how they were hacked.
Apparently some of the university data files were made available on a peer to peer file sharing network. Some of these files contained logins and passwords for some of the systems administrators. Ooops, how could something like that happen? I bet there are some folks at Harvard being asked some tough questions this morning…
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