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...list of all three prescription drugs purchased by one student at University Health Services (UHS) Pharmacy was accessed by The Crimson by typing his ID number and birthday into another website, run by Harvard drug insurer PharmaCare. Birthdates of undergraduates are published to fellow students, and are in many cases more widely available on sites such as anybirthday.com...
...most Harvard websites with secure information require a confidential PIN or other password in addition to the ID, The Crimson has identified a number of online applications—ranging from PharmaCare to network access to mail forwarding—that require nothing more than an ID number and birthday, or ID and last name...
...even if iCommons is fixed, The Crimson has identified a variety of web tools that require no more than the non-secret ID, or a combination of ID and last name or birthday, to access information that would generally be considered confidential...
...most sensitive data accessible with only a Harvard ID and birthday, though, appears to be that from Harvard’s primary drug insurance provider, PharmaCare...
...Despite that, there are a lot of people in the healthcare industry who just don’t get it,” he said. “If indeed they’re using just [ID and birthday] to identify somebody, that’s an example of just not getting...