Mozilla Dumps Info of 76,000 Developers To Public Web Server

wiredmikey writes Mozilla warned on Friday that it had mistakenly exposed information on almost 80,000 members of its Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) as a result of a botched data sanitization process. The discovery was made around June 22 by one of Mozilla's Web developers, Stormy Peters, Director of Developer Relations at Mozilla, said in a security advisory posted to the Mozilla Security Blog on Friday. "Starting on about June 23, for a period of 30 days, a data sanitization process of the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) site database had been failing, resulting in the accidental disclosure of MDN email addresses of about 76,000 users and encrypted passwords of about 4,000 users on a publicly accessible server," Peters wrote. According to Peters, the encrypted passwords were salted hashes and they by themselves cannot currently be used to authenticate with the MDN. However, Peters warned that MDN users may be at risk if they reused their original MDN passwords on other non-Mozilla websites or authentication systems.

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Re: Stop Storing Personal Data

[ShieldW0lf]

I ditched them over the Brendan Eich debacle, myself... haven't missed em. Free software is an important issue, but preserving the place of the traditional nuclear family is a more important issue. The fags and the feminists insinuated them selves, and now the project will die just like gnome project did. At least this time they're killing something people remember... perhaps they'll open a few eyes this time, and people will clue in that, even if you agree with their politics, it's still going to kill the project when gender issues are poaching away resources from real work.

Probably too optimistic... it'll die and few will put together why it really happened, just like gnome.