University of East Anglia Climate Research Center Servers Hacked
By Adam Dodge - Posted on November 19th, 2009
Quick Facts
- Date: 11/19/2009
- Institution: University of East Anglia
- Type of Incident: Penetration
- Number Affected: Unknown
- Source: ESI
- Abstract Source: Examiner.com, The Register
Abstract
The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climate Research Center recently suffered a breach exposing thousands of email messages. The breach involved 1079 e-mail messages and 72 documents containing internal communications from researchers involved in global warming research. These documents were uploaded to an anonymous FTP server. The documents and e-mails themselves contain internal communications filled with crude language and disparaging comments on skeptical scientists. In addition, several of the messages appear to bring into question the relationship between the scientists and several journalists as well as call into question the methodologies used in some of the research.
