[nchelluri]

So I don't quite understand that... Trying to piece it together.

Perhaps the Harvard email system will allow you to send a Reset Password link to an arbitrary (?) email address if you correctly identify some "identity verification" questions, and this guy was able to glean the answers to those questions from reading the article author's bio?

[jakejake]

Didn't sound like it was too awfully difficult but yea, pretty thin on the details. Here's Harvards password reset instructions... http://huit.harvard.edu/reset-your-harvard-password