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Kickstarter Leaves Project Ideas Exposed

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-just-had-70,000-great-ideas dept.

netbuzz writes "Crowd-funding startup Kickstarter is taking a public-relations hit today after it was reported that some 70,000 not-yet-public project ideas were left exposed on the company's Web site for more than two weeks. Kickstarter insists that no financial information was compromised and that only a few dozen of the projects were actually accessed. 'Obviously our users' data is incredibly important to us, the company said in a blog post. 'Even though limited information was made accessible through this bug, it is completely unacceptable.'"

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  1. I so meta... by x1r8a3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they can setup a kickstarter to fund the software improvements.

  2. So many ideas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, that's like... $7 worth of ideas!

  3. Very timely xkcd comic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://xkcd.org/1055

  4. Yo dawg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard you like kickstarters so I put a kickstarter in your kickstarter so you can kickstart while you kickstart.

  5. Re:At least Kickstarter don't make a living from i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until someone pulls off the imminent millionaire scam and flees to Aruba, beyond the reach of any legal system.

    But then we start a Kickstarter project to fund a trip to go after them.