🏈 Auburn tells NCAA leaked bio of future Alabama signee Rashaan Evans was a 'hack' by media

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Auburn determined its premature publishing of Rashaan Evans' biography on its website was an NCAA violation, according to documents released to AL.com and other media outlets.
Auburn released documents from the 2013-14 academic year containing 21 secondary violations with heavily-redacted information Tuesday.

Auburn's compliance staff terms the leak of the five-star linebacker's bio online a "hack" by the media. The web page was discovered by fans and other media outlets, including ESPN, moments before the Auburn High star announced his intention to sign with Alabama.

"Media personnel were able to hack into the site and 'find' the code to pull up the bio," Auburn officials explained in a self-reported violation submitted to the NCAA in March. "The bio for Evans was then publicized on media sites. [Auburn] never posted the information on its own site, and never intended for the bio to be visible."

The web page, however, was visible to anyone who typed in the correct URL, which is not mentioned in the self-reported violation. Auburn's media relations staff wrote biographies for every prospect Auburn's compliance department issued a National Letter of Intent to on Feb. 5.

Rashaan Evans' bio was discovered by fans and reporters, and shared on Twitter in the moments leading up to the Auburn High linebacker's announcement to sign with Alabama.
Evans' page was published (Auburn denies this claim), but the school did not publicize the bio on AuburnTigers.com.

Auburn's staff told the NCAA it will "work harder to 'hide' the information in code, so that future successful hacking attempts do not result in violations."

Auburn explained to the NCAA "there was no intent to release the information; in fact the release of the information was an embarrassment to the athletics department, particularly the media relations staff."

Auburn removed the page and a YouTube video including highlights of the Auburn High linebacker on the same day. The YouTube video, which was removed, is not mentioned in the documents filed with the NCAA.

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[TerryP]

This story absolutely floors me. I'm left assuming their administration is playing this narrative because they believe people are ignorant enough to believe what they're saying??

Let me show you something real quick. Take a look at this url.

http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/team/8/index.html

Let's assume you wanted to look at the 2012 stats. What would you change/do? Simple, right? You change the "3" in 2013 to a "2."

Understand, I think this whole this is quite ludicrous. But, I can't help but read these things and say...

[Auburn] never posted the information on its own site..., — Bullshit. Auburn never meant for someone to find it.

and never intended for the bio to be visible." — Very true, I'm sure.

Evans' page was published (Auburn denies this claim),...— Bullshit. If the page is live, it's been published.

but the school did not publicize the bio on AuburnTigers.com... — Very true, I'm sure.

Auburn explained to the NCAA "there was no intent to release the information; in fact the release of the information was an embarrassment to the athletics department, particularly the media relations staff." — I believe this as well. It should be an embarrassment.

.....

In the end, this is what I don't get. Why not just say, "We pre-built all of the bios to save time and work. Someone discovered the url of the bio and shared it. It was a mistake on our end."

But to say it was a "hack" by the media? :eyeroll:

Someone opened this bottle, drank all of it, and expects others to do the same...

 

[bama alum]

I guess the barn thinks the idiots at the nzaa are on the intellectual level of some in congress who think emails can just...disappear.

I agree it's a terrible story. I like you pre-built story idea; it's the truth.

 

[PhillyGirl]

 

[BamaCore]

Wow. "Hacked."

I bet the hacker used their 100 jiggawat computers to get into the mainframe chip of the Auburn database.

It's hilarious when someone hears a word like "hack" and they try to use it as well when they clearly don't know the ins and outs of how it really works or what exactly it means. I'll bet one of them had their facebook or twitter page hacked, was told it was hacked, and then thought back on it like "Hey, wait a minute...My Facebook was hacked...I'll just tell them the website was hacked!"

 

[riz]

It amazes me how freaking stupid they must think people are. Prolly a reflection on their fanbase.

Almost as bad as Fluker or whoever it was saying his twitter was hacked. Riiiiiight.

 

[sean]

yeah, i kinda have to agree that it wasn't "hacked" as they say.

i can understand them creating the page before his commitment announcement. i've worked in web design (intern) and we did that on occasion. but what we did was to keep it on the computer where the file/page was created or moved it to a portable drive (usb drive/thumb stick. etc.) and kept that drive unplugged unless we were moving something to it. doing that there was no way anyone could find the file before it was published to the server.

of course i can't expect anyone at auburn to think of things like this. they probably juts got computers in the last couple years anyway and are still learning how to use them.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I just laughed at it when I saw it, but in the end, folks will buy it because auburn is above reproach and does no wrong, ever.

 

[shipley00]

In a follow up statement, when asked to view the e-mails of the events leading up to the "hack", Auburn claimed that the IRS has deleted their hard drives.