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Cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked

Posted by timothy on from the hopefully-no-dropped-rows-on-the-flight-home dept.

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."

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  1. so what? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can't think of anything less important than seeing phonebook-style data made public. Losing credit card numbers or bank account numbers for large groups is bad; losing email addresses is not.

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    1. Re:so what? by foo1752 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Losing credit card numbers or bank account numbers for large groups is bad; losing email addresses is not.

      Losing email addresses is not AS BAD as losing more sensitive information, but it is still not good. I, for one, wouldn't be happy about that information being exposed.

  2. It could be worse... by Extremus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could stay quiet about it.

  3. Re:Routing error by skids · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cisco's customers will not find bureaucratic bungling from them to be anything out of the ordinary, trust me, they are very used to it.

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