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Following a data breach of the Harvard Business Schoolâs secure file transfer system in December, experts said they foresee ongoing consequences for the systemâs users.
The HBS breach occurred when a third party exploited the secure file transfer system Accellion File Transfer Application and downloaded studentsâ personal information. Other affected institutions using the system included the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Washingtonâs State Auditor Office, Canadian jet manufacturer Bombardier, and Jones Day Law Firm, which represented Donald J. Trumpâs administration and reelection campaign.
On March 1, Accellion announced that it retained FireEye Mandiant, a cybersecurity forensics firm, to scour the FTA for vulnerabilities by performing penetration testing and reviewing code. Acellion also charged Mandiant with investigating the cyberattacks.
Harvard Business School is working to respond to a data breach that compromised studentsâ personal information, including some social security numbers and exam submissions.
HBS Chief Information Officer Ronald âRonâ S. Chandler initially announced the breach in an email to school affiliates on Jan. 11.
Chandler wrote that the Business School was notified by a software vendor of unauthorized access to its files on Dec. 29, after which the school launched an investigation. The investigation found that one or more âunauthorized third partiesâ had downloaded âfiles containing personal informationâ between Dec. 21 and Dec. 23.
In a follow-up email to affected students on Feb. 10, HBS Information Security Officer and Managing Director of IT Compliance Christopher âChrisâ W. Pringle confirmed that some affiliatesâ social security numbers had been compromised, in addition to other personal information â such as names, contact informat
Harvard Business School students, some of the only Harvard affiliates who experienced in-person classes last fall, praised the hybrid classroom model that the school debuted in the fall and continued this spring.
Spring semester courses at the Business School take place either fully remotely or in hybrid classrooms, in which rotating groups of 25 students attend in-person classes that are also available on Zoom, allowing remote students to participate as well.
In a Feb. 16 Covid-19 update to HBS affiliates, Executive Dean for Administration Angela Q. Crispi and Business School Dean Srikant M. Datar wrote that 115 class sessions were held in a hybrid classroom in the previous week.
UPDATED: Jan. 20, 2021 at 5:40 p.m.
During a tumultuous four years under the administration of Donald Trump, local leaders have dealt with the fallout of how its policies trickled down into the lives of Cambridge residents. While Covid-19 and economic fallout raged nationally, the cityâs top issues â small business erosion, food insecurity, and homelessness â have all been exacerbated.
Now, as President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office, he has proposed lengthy plans to tackle the nationâs crises. Looking ahead, Cambridge leaders said they have both hopes and demands for renewed local support under a Biden administration.
Under Trump, the Cambridge Community Foundation, a public charity that funds nonprofits around the city, transitioned to devoting its funding to combat the effects of the administrationâs âregressive policies,â according to its president, Geeta K. Pradhan.