March 13, 2008 Updated: Cnet reports that a copy of Harvard student and applicant data that was stored on a hacked server was posted on peer-to-peer network file sharing, BitTorrent. This means that millions of people now have direct access to data raped.
A data breach information in February 2008 may have been more extensive than was originally thought according to a statement today by officials from Harvard University. About 10,000 personal files of students and the current candidates, including about 6,600 social security numbers and ids 500 Harvard students were compromised when a hacker has obtained unauthorized access to a web server used by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
first Harvard officials believed that no personal information was put at risk, but further investigation failed to confirm the identities of the students are not at a potential risk.
"We will not be able to exclude that individuals can have access to this other information obtained," said Daniel D. Moriarty, chief information officer of the University. "We basically decided as a conservative measure with notifying people who have been affected and aligning [identity theft] services for these people. "
People affected by the breach will provide the credit report monitoring and other prevention services at the university name.