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Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data

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. Mozilla's public disclosure by Giorgio+Maone · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/12/27/addons-mozilla-org-disclosure/
    Active accounts have their password SHA-512 hashed with per-user salt, so they're safe (for a while). However those 44,000 holders of older (and now disabled) MD5 hashed accounts should rush changing their passwords elsewhere, if they have the bad habit of using the same password everywhere...

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