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Harvard applicants breached security

Tried via computer to learn status

By Hiawatha Bray and Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / March 4, 2005

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For at least two hours after midnight Wednesday, a computer hacker enabled applicants to the Harvard Business School to find out whether they'd been accepted, weeks before Harvard planned to release the news. (Full article: 840 words)

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