March 18, 2005
3 Business Schools Ban 'Hackers' of Their Admissions Systems
A computer hacker who learned how to break into software used by hundreds of colleges' online-admissions programs passed the word along this month to anxious business-school applicants, more than 200 of whom promptly tried to find out weeks early whether they had been accepted.
Six institutions were hit by the overeager applicants. Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they knew who tried to break into their computer systems
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