Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website appears to have been the subject of a major security breach, as server backups, site databases and contact databases are leaked to BitTorrent. The 125MB file is currently being tracked by The Pirate Bay.
Early reports indicate that a Harvard University website has become the victim of a major security breach. A torrent currently tracked by The Pirate Bay which links to a 125mb .zip file, claims to be the backup from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website.
The backup -seeded from a Harvard IP address (and others)- carries many files, passwords and what appears to be a full directory structure for the site. Three other major database files are mentioned specifically, details as follows:
1. joomla.sql - claims to be the database for the Harvard site
2. contacts.sql - claims to be a database of contacts
3. hgs.sql - stated as ‘other minor thing’
The .NFO file included with the release says in broken English: “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.”
A file included with the release labeled password.txt carries a message:
Thomas gatton….stupid people, you don’t use a secure password
username: Password:
tgatton *removed by TF*
jmartinez *removed by TF*
This appears to be a reference to Thomas Gatton, Systems Administrator and User Support Specialist at Harvard.
This is not the first time Harvard has been hacked. In 2005, a man using the name ‘Brookbond’ helped applicants to several universities get access to admissions records on their websites, an action described by the school as a “serious breach of trust”.
These files certainly appear to be ‘the real deal’. More on this breaking news story as we get it.
Update: The website in question seems to be down now. They are most likely trying to fix the security breach.
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lol
i hope tbp gets taken down real soon for having shit like this on their trackers
tpb deserves to die, soon hopefully
heh.
Hire new server personal maybe :P
@2
Blow TPB’s …., son.
@2 yeah right. That is not going to happen.
you deserve to die, soon hopefully
TPB is not to blame. If it wasn’t there it would’ve been available somewhere else.
[quote comment="292152"]i hope tbp gets taken down real soon for having shit like this on their trackers
tpb deserves to die, soon hopefully[/quote]
ROFL *slap*
and about the article, ROFL!
[quote comment="292152"]i hope tbp gets taken down real soon for having shit like this on their trackers
tpb deserves to die, soon hopefully[/quote]
Kindly Go fuck yourself :)
“The backup -seeded from a Harvard IP address”
I’m not using µTorrent so I don’t know if I’m reading this right, but it appears the harvard.edu IP only has 3.4 % of the file, hence is not a seeder.
TPB is the best they have to control what goes on their trackers,unless its reported
You do read it right Simpad, that harvard ip was merely downloading it.
Dear TorrentFreak team can we please get the IP form the 2nd comment poster to ban his IP range on our networks ? :)
yea give us the ip, needs to be put on some blocklists …
well i think torrents really are the best choice for a global world because i live in europe and was born in the states and i like to see some tv programs from the states and i have the most expensive and most chanels my country offers but i still cant get what i want unless i download it…so screw all you goody 2 shoes who are aginst global share…
P.S. i’ll preach global share till i die…
lol, but what do you expect from a site running joomla.
like i care for getting banned u bunch of dipshits lol =P
i hope the swedish court rules u fuckers r guilty of piracy
then u’ll be forced to take down ur shit on swedish servers, and soon disappear
fuck ur polluted trackers, u assholes cant even keep it clean, so u might as well completely disappear
fuck u morons
i have money to buy my shit, i dont need to pirate, bunch of poor fuckers lol =P
At least they will improve security…
No system is safe “there’s always a way in”, and involve people makes it weak.
Trust your hardware, not your service support.
About the ip of the stupid guy, we must keep anonymous, turn his ip public would be the end…
But of course, i agree with a ban :) or a ‘mute’.
I’m for the “No IP retention” !
lol =P
u pirates truly r a bunch of dumbass dipshits
theres like a zillion proxies, how u gonna stop me?
tpb is shit, and deserves to die
Yikes, sounds like real pirates scurrying around..
Bored a little ‘Fuck TPB’?
And I’m glad to hear you have the money to buy the things you wish instead of downloading….truly I am glad…
//reminisces at how many times that has been said in the past by people just like this chap.
@ Fuck TPB
too bad your money is not enough to get yourself a real girl.
hope wanking to pirate bay is satisfactory for you poor nerd :)
“Fuck TPB”
ya maw said she hates you last nite, she said she was thinking of jumping off a cliff so people stop associating her with you, so do the right thing first and you jump ! :D
i would bet anyone of us could beat that cat up.
sounds like he is ten.
he considers piracy as a ‘dirty’ thing.
sounds a bit like Thomas Gatton to me lol
“Fuck TPB”
Is that you Cary Sherman?
Or you Dan Glickman?
You sound too stupid to even be John Giacobbi so am a bit confused….
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