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ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands
Barence writes "British ISP Demon Internet has mistakenly sent out a spreadsheet containing the personal details of more than 3,600 customers with one of its new ebills. The spreadsheet contains email addresses, telephone numbers and what appears to be usernames and passwords for the ebilling system. It was attached to an email explaining how to use the new system. Police forces and NHS trusts are among the email addresses listed in the database. A spokesman for Demon Internet confirmed that the company "was aware this happened this morning"."
Demon Internet Yesman: Christ! We're getting murdered out there! ... if it was fucking October! And we're dealing with internet users here, not AOL USERS! Jesus, has anyone else got something better? ... ... ... I'm listening ... ... and now that the evil person tried to do something evil with that data, we have caught them and they are safely behind bars but if you're receiving this message you are not evil so you have nothing to worry about and only good people have your information.
Demon Internet CEO: Okay, okay, calm down. We've got a little issue on our hands here and we kinda need to sweep this little thing under the carpet. Now, you're not getting paid six figures to agree with me, what have you got?
Demon Internet Yesman: I've drafted an e-mail that explains to our customers that for Halloween we decided to be evil -- after all, we are Demon Internet? Huh? Huh?
Demon Internet CEO: Not bad, not bad
Demon Internet Yesman: I've got it! We tell them that we're trying to be transparent and an "open information" company because information wants to be free and so we sent everyone everyone's log on and contact information so they can
Demon Internet CEO: Did you just personify the noun 'information'? That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Who are you? Pack your shit, you're fired. Next.
Demon Internet Yeswoman: *tentatively raises her had* Well, we could tell them that we suspected one of them was an evil dirty file sharer
Demon Internet CEO:
Demon Internet Yeswoman:
Demon Internet CEO: *nods slowly and approvingly* Yes, yes, that's good. We are law enforcers, we are providers, in their eyes we have done only good and now they fear and respect us and think they have escaped the sickle of justice. I like it. Sally, you're off of blow job duty. Frank, you're on blow job duty -- it's simple: my office every weekday at noon. Sally, I knew that equal opportunity employment shit that made me hire you was on to something. Okay folks, listen up, I want everyone in Great Britain to open their mouths 'cause I'm about to put my big fat cock in it.
My work here is dung.
Demon's going to have hell to pay.
Security through obscurity never helped anyone.
839*929
10 Bucks says it comes down to a cat on the keyboard.
If they follow evil corporation best practices manual -- they obviously do so, then I doubt that.
Demon Internet Yesman 2: Uh, um .... SPLUNGE!
Demon Internet CEO: What does splunge mean?
Demon Internet Yesman 2: It means it's a great idea, but possibly not, and I'm not being indecisive!
Demon Internet CEO: GOOD!
Culture is more than commerce
Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs linux on everything, saving the company a fortune. And since this wouldn't be slashdot without some kind of sexual commentary -- Sally also sets up her own dungeon between several racks of blade servers, a webcam, and begins posting her payback sessions to fund some much-needed hardware upgrades. :P
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs linux on everything, saving the company a fortune. And since this wouldn't be slashdot without some kind of sexual commentary -- Sally also sets up her own dungeon between several racks of blade servers, a webcam, and begins posting her payback sessions to fund some much-needed hardware upgrades. :P
The stories are funnier when they are fictitious, Sally.
Great, I just got an diabetes and an erection from reading your post.
"Too good to be true" says the empty bottle of Three Philosophers Quadruple sitting next to me.
My work here is dung.
You're hired!
Invaders must die
I ROFLd very hard at this. Now who hasn't heard of something like this happening or been in a work place where this has happend? Of all the security measures companies fret over these days they fail to recognise the threat of abject stupidity.
Many moons ago, I was told a tale about sending out mass mailings, not this "slip of the mouse" email stuff.
The bank's marketing and finance guys have come up with this glossy brochure of stuff for their top customers, based on something like highest 5% balance holders. There's a letter drafted to accompany the brochure, it just remains to do the little personalising touches for the final run.
Someone forgets to replace the output placeholder with the salutation generation program that'll even spew out "Dear Sir Whimsey-Porpoise".
The final letters are printed, enveloped, and mailed. The salutation from the placeholder piece of code? "Dear Rich Bastard,".
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
Huh? My is password cleartext it's always ******** no matter what I type, so insecure!
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Great, I just got an diabetes and an erection from reading your post.
Sounds like you need an insulin erection.
You see, when a company fucks up, they call us at The Goat and we send them a person. Said person "works" there and takes all the blame and gets fired. The company looks good and we make money.
Legal fuck ups cost $100,000 for the goat plus our markup of 100% for a total of $200,000. The $100,000 for the goat allows him to live for a while until the public forgets about him. Goats for white collar illegal activities will run on a sliding scale. But let's say you have another Enron type of thing. That'll run you well in the tens of millions but the upside is you get away with it (and your hundreds of millions or billions) and our Goat goes to trial and maybe even jail for you (extra million per year sentenced). Sorry, we won't offer any services for violent crimes, mafia stuff, or political hanky panky - sorry Congressmen, Senators, and any ex-Presidents.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
I actually prefer this bit:
An interesting element not generally related as part of this story just goes to prove you can never please everyone: The little UK firm responsible for the gaffe received a complaint from a potential customer who felt himself qualified to be a rich bastard yet had not received the letter he deemed appropriate to his station in life.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
"...when a corporate is involved it always is a MISTAKE.
When an individual hacker exposes weak security, he is a terrorist."
Solution: Instead of being an individual hacker, form a security corporation.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Standard practice is that nobody knows the password - you just store the hash.
Not even the user knows their own password... now that's security!