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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. "Exposed" defined: by Bananatree3 · · Score: 5, Informative
    TFA reads:

    This bug allowed some data from unlaunched projects to be made accessible via the API. It was immediately fixed upon discovering the error. No account or financial data of any kind was made accessible. The bug was introduced when we launched the API in conjunction with our new homepage on April 24, and was live until it was discovered and fixed on Friday, May 11, at 1:42pm. The bug made accessible the project description, goal, duration, rewards, video, image, location, category, and user name for unlaunched projects.

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

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

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

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

  4. 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.