McAfee Leaks Conference Attendees' Personal Info

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @11:57PM 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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I just had to... by plastbox · 2009-07-29 23:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FIRST! =D
Re:Title error by ATestR · 2009-07-30 00:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Do you mean "attendees'"?

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Re:Title error by Polarina · 2009-07-30 00:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No, it's attendees'.
Oh I get it! by Drakkenmensch · 2009-07-30 00:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's like bronzy or coppery, except it's made of iron!
1. Re:Oh I get it! by mcgrew · 2009-07-30 02:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  No, it's what your mommie uses to make your shirties flat.
  
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