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Cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked
Julie188 writes "Thousands of people got a nasty e-mail this morning from Cisco. The company was warning people that its attendee registration database for its Cisco Live 2010 event was hacked. Cisco Live 2010 is the company's annual user conference, held last week in Las Vegas with an estimated 18,000 in attendance. If it's not embarrassing enough for a company that sells security gear to get hacked, the e-mail also went out to people who didn't register and didn't attend the event. That raises questions about exactly what database was pried open and how bad the damage is. Cisco's e-mail said the hole was quickly closed and only business-card type information was exposed."
A routing error?!?!
Emailing the wrong list, maybe..
A routing error is where a packet of info is sent to the wrong network device.. these emails made it to their intended destination... The question is were there too many destinations.
It seems from reading TFA (which you obviously didn't) that the author was given a press pass, he just didnt attend. I'm guessing his name and badge were still in the database even if he didn't attend, therefore when the list was compromised his data could have been compromised also. So it seems to me Cisco did not have a routing error. The submitter summarized this badly like usual. And you Didn't RTFA.