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Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the heads-up dept.

wiredmikey writes "Mozilla yesterday sent an email to registered users of its addons.mozilla.org site, letting them know that it had mistakenly posted a file to a publicly available Web server which contained data from its user database including email addresses, first and last names, and an md5 hash representation of user passwords."

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  1. Re:Kudos to Mozilla by kestasjk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here at slashdot we try to be supportive when tech companies make mistakes; we never kick people when they're down or make fun.

    Mozilla may not be our favorite tech company and we may not agree with their software development methodology; but damn it we're not going to treat them any differently, and will give them our support just like we would any down-on-their-luck company which made a silly one-off mistake!

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  2. Re:Mozilla's public disclosure by Yvanhoe · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always wondered what the implications of password reuse were...
    http://xkcd.com/792/
    Ok, maybe not that bad

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  3. Re:Don't fret before reading TFA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just checked with the RIAA and they said that it is likely that thousands of people downloaded it from that person's machine.