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...hacker infiltrated the computer of an Eliot House resident Sunday morning and installed a program that enabled him to gather the user names and passwords of numerous other Eliot residents, officials said. The breach required about 100 users to undergo a "forced re-authentication" process...
...hacker ran a program over the Internet that gave him root, or universal, access to my machine. This allowed the hacker to start a packet sniffer to gather people's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passwords when they logged into the network," the resident said...
Packet sniffers gather all information, including usernames and passwords, passing over the network while the program is running. This information is then available to the hacker, according to Osterberg...
...hacker did not appear to be a Harvard affiliate...
...resident said that the hacker "appeared to be from a dial-up account in Michigan...