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Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the but-this-was-the-before-picture dept.

netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times."

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  1. I know this is /. and all... by Loopy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...but maybe some of you could show that you do, in fact, have the capability to rub two brain cells together and distinguish between a clerical error and an actual security issue? I mean, we all know how easy it is to hate Big Infrastructure(tm) but sophistry doesn't help your arguments.