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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."

3 of 94 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Title is Misleading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They meant it in the "you messed with the wrong motherfucker" way. Not as in they had meant to expose some other 1200 email addresses.

  2. Re:Verizon responds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    G0000000000000000000000000000000D

    Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.

  3. Re:Blunder by DarthJohn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    enforces the theory that it only takes one idiot to... the whole internet.

    You accidentally... the internet? The whole thing?!

    1. Enforces the theory that it only takes one idiot to
    2. ...
    3. the whole internet

    I think this meme must be dead