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Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-pictures-ugly-facts dept.

First time accepted submitter radudragusin writes "IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly available on their FTP server for at least one month prior to my discovery. Among the almost 100.000 compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, as well as researchers from NASA, Stanford and many other places. I did not and will not make the raw data available, but I took the liberty to analyse it briefly."

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  1. Well... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this make plaintext password storage an IEEE standard now?

    That could save an, er, friend of mine, a lot of work...

  2. Re:Finally! by alphatel · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is obvious based on the geolocation data that Greenland is behind all of this.

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    When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
  3. Re:Secure password message falls on deaf ears by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

    . We need to go back to the drawing board and figure out a better way to get the message across, including tools to make it easy for people to get it right.

    Maybe it would work if we could get a battery-powered horse to staple the correct message to people.

  4. Re:small error? by nedlohs · · Score: 4, Funny

    One has an uppercase 5. The other is all lowercase.