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- NCAA hunts site hackers
- By Courtney Macavinta
- March 10, 1997, 5:15 p.m. PT
-
- A day after the NCAA's Web site was
- hacked, computer experts from colleges around
- the country are combing the Net for perpetrators.
-
- The home page was defaced with white
- supremacist slogans and racial slurs twice
- yesterday. The attacks took place as many of the
- nation's college basketball sports fans watched the
- selection process for the NCAA Tournament,
- known as the "Final Four."
-
- Network administrators and other staff personnel
- from Duke University, the University of
- Massachusetts at Amherst, and San Diego State
- University began hunting down the hackers almost
- immediately after the first incident Sunday.
-
- "Basically they are looking for clues from the site,
- while searching other leads on the Net," Wally
- Renfro, director of constituent communication for
- the NCAA, said today. "If weÆre successful in
- actually tracking them down, we'll take legal
- action."
-
- Renfro said the hacking didn't have a negative
- effect on the 800 NCAA-member schools.
- Instead, he said it sent a message to others to
- increase security.
-
- "We brought attention to a problem. We tightened
- our security and others would as well," he said.
- "But It makes me angry that an awfully good
- product that was tampered with."