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To: nickcarraway
MBA student Adam Allcock "discovered" 14 terabytes of confidential student data from financial aid applications, according to a new report. Later that month, Allcock reported the breach to the school’s financial aid director, and the records were removed within an hour, the report said.

Allcock had dug deeply into the data, spending 1,500 hours analyzing the information and putting together an 88-page report

Sounds like a hacker to me. How do you spend 1,500 hours in a month that could have no more than 744 hours?

5 posted on 12/02/2017 2:59:30 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

The records were removed that month. I figure he kept a copy, and spent a fair amount of time analyzing said data.


10 posted on 12/02/2017 3:05:55 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BwanaNdege

How do you spend 1,500 hours in a month that could have no more than 744 hours?


I noticed that too.

The 14TB number is also fishy. For comparison, the entire print collection of the Library of Congress is about 10TB.


15 posted on 12/02/2017 3:09:22 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: BwanaNdege

Billable hours.

Lawyers do it all the time.


18 posted on 12/02/2017 3:52:11 PM PST by fella ("As it wshas before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BwanaNdege

He out-sourced it to India using Fellowship funds? The bonus was the report which he kicked in another five bucks?


21 posted on 12/02/2017 4:35:28 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: BwanaNdege; Gideon7
"How do you spend 1,500 hours in a month..." Answer in the article:
"In February," <- He has had 9 months to analyze the data.
22 posted on 12/02/2017 5:30:07 PM PST by Wayne07
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