Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail

NeverVotedBush writes "Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months. The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions."

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Stolen email?

[bmo]

No mail was stolen. It was delivered exactly where it was addresst.

It's the fault of the monkey behind the keyboard and nobody else.

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BMO