UIS: Chaos unfolded this past Sunday evening as Georgetown officials discovered a data breach affecting every single account on the network. Recent changes to network security were supposed to help prevent these breaches but may have accidentally caused them. Notably, all accounts were made to change their passwords to five keywords only they would know earlier in the semester.

The Heckler has reached out to the anonymous hacker for insight. “I kinda just found words I thought were funny or cool from the dictionary and combined them randomly until it worked,” said the hacker, recounting his ingenious method for the breach that left the university scrambling. Students were concerned but not surprised. One Skrelpton Schiller wrote, “I rerolled mine until I got one with the word ‘worm’ in it.” Schiller was joined by other students, seemingly, considering almost 96% of passwords generated including the word worm were accepted by students.

“Hack me all you want. Worms are sick,” said fellow student Omar Navarro, claiming that, despite the breach, he planned on keeping his current password. Mr. Navarro declined to comment on whether or not the word ‘worm’ was contained in his password, citing security concerns.

University officials are planning ways to correct the issue but are urging students to change their passwords to contain fewer cool words. In the meantime, the words ‘worm’, ‘sexy’, ‘Jesuit’, ‘rump’, and ‘slurp’ have been removed from the algorithm that creates the passwords. “In the future, we are looking at a similar system that utilizes numbers instead of words for network safety.” said technology administrator Gregory Bunson who claims his password, ‘69420’, is yet to be the target of a hack.