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  • Astroglide sticks it to their customers

    In another stunningly stupid security lapse, the company that makes the sexual lubricant Astroglide has accidentally exposed the privates of 260,000 people, including their names, addresses, and the products they ordered. This database was accidentally published on a Web server, where it should have never been located. This isn't a security ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by Russ McBee on April 24, 2007
  • Insecure USDA database leaks up to 150,000 SSNs

    Apparently, an online database maintained by the USDA and the Census Bureau accidentally revealed as many as 150,000 Social Security numbers to anyone searching the site. A bored farmer decided to Google herself and stumbled upon 30,000 SSNs in the process. This wasn't a case of data being stolen, or hacked, or left behind on a laptop in a taxi. ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by Russ McBee on April 22, 2007
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