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McAfee Leaks Conference Attendees' Personal Info

Posted by samzenpus on from the black-fly-in-your-chardonnay dept.

Timmy writes "In the cruelest of ironies, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally coughed up the personal details of some 1400 attendees of its recent security conference in Sydney, Australia. Those who were sent the list — attached as a spreadsheet to a thank you e-mail — are far from pleased that such an extraordinary thing could happen. McAfee, which sells products to 'stop sensitive and protected data from leaving the enterprise through email and web traffic' has blamed 'human error' for the blunder and is 'taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.' Doh!"

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  1. Title error by RPoet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Title should say "attendees'", not "attendee's".

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  2. S*** happens by indre1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Things like this even happen to the best of us.

  3. Re:This isn't a leak, it's a feature! by jank1887 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every professional conference I've been do has provided an attendees list as part of the welcome kit (including the program, CD with papers/presentations, etc.). I get crap from vendors every once in a while. But not too much. Was this McAffee leaked information more than just contact info?