Well, we may not like it but at least these guys are letting us know they have the info and will now embarrass Harvard into doing something. How much information has been stolen and used before this?

Harvard University says about 10,000 of last year’s applicants may have had their personal information compromised.
At least 6,600 Social Security numbers were exposed. Worse, a compressed 125 M-byte file containing the stolen student data is currently available via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer network.
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A BitTorrent file containing the stolen data includes a note that reads in part “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 Web site.” The BitTorrent file consists of a server backup of the GSAS site with a full directory structure and three databases: joomla.slq, the main database; contacts.sql which is a database of contacts; and hgs.sql, a miscellaneous file.

Just one more sand trap for us parents to worry about.
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