Mozilla gaffe exposed 76,000 email addresses, 4000 passwords
Mozilla has 'fessed up to accidentally exposing the email addresses for 76,000 members of its Developer Network, along with 4000 encrypted passwords.
The breach was caused by a bad script that on July 23 was found to have inadvertently published the records online over the previous month.
The offending data sanitisation process failed, resulting in the breach, Mozilla's developer and security heads Stormy Peters and Joe Stevensen wrote in a co-authored post." As soon as we learned of it, the database dump file was removed from the server immediately, and the process that generates the dump was disabled to prevent further disclosure," they said.
