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IDG News Service - 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 125MB file described as the database for the Web site of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is available via the BitTorrent 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.
The Web site for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was offline on Monday.
A note attached to the torrent says that the file contains a backup of the site -- including some contacts files and other files associated with Joomla, an open-source content management system -- along with other various bits. It appears to be legitimate.
The note's writer said that the stunt is intended to demonstrate the insecurity of Harvard's server. The writer also exposed what he claimed are the usernames and passwords belonging to two of the site's system administrators.
"Stupid people, you don't use a secure password," read a note preceding the sensitive information.
As of Monday afternoon, the compromised file was being distributed by 11 users -- known in file-sharing terminology as "seeders" -- and was being downloaded by nine "leechers."
Harvard's media office was closed on Monday because of the U.S. Presidents' Day holiday.
IDG.netOne of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked
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