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Harvard Applicants Breached Security / Applicants' Behavior

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:34:06 -0500

Harvard rejects 119 accused of hacking
Applicants' behavior 'unethical at best'

By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 8, 2005

Harvard Business School will reject the 119 applicants who hacked into
the school's admissions site last week, the school's dean, Kim
B. Clark, said yesterday.

"This behavior is unethical at best -- a serious breach of trust that
can not be countered by rationalization," Clark said in a
statement. "Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted
to this school."

A half dozen business schools were swamped by a wave of electronic
intrusions Wednesday morning, after a computer hacker posted
instructions on a BusinessWeek Online message board. Harvard is the
second school to say definitively that it will deny the applications
of proven hackers. The first was Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of
Business, where only one admission file was targeted.

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http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/08/harvard_rejects_119_accused_of_hacking_1110274403/

Harvard applicants breached security
Tried via computer to learn status
By Hiawatha Bray and Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 4, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/04/harvard_applicants_breached_security/

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