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...Crimson reported on Friday that with a generic e-mail account, reporters were able to access, within 10 minutes, a list of every drug purchased by one Harvard student as well as the e-mail addresses and ID numbers of several students whose identities the University was required to keep secret under federal...
...Crimson also reported that several Harvard websites—including those regulating network access, job applications and mail forwarding—were accessible with only a non-secure ID number and last name, birthday or Social Security Number. These are among nearly a dozen websites identified by The Crimson that remain vulnerable to unauthorized access...
University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said that following the Crimson report, Harvard will conduct an audit of all websites that permit access with the ID and another nonsecure piece of information—which Wrinn called “an inappropriately weak form of authentication”—rather than through a confidential password or PIN number...
...Securing access to restricted web sites or other applications with anything other than HUID and PIN is not appropriate,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail. “Whether a site contains confidential data or not, the login process should entail a secret password that is under the control of the user...
Though reviews have found that only The Crimson had used the method required for a non-affiliate to access the poll tool, Wrinn said yesterday that Harvard was still reviewing possible misuse by Harvard affiliates. He said Harvard would be following up with users—like students who administered polls for classes—who should not have had access...