"Mozilla gaffe exposed 76,000 email addresses, 4000 ENCRYPTED passwords"
That is all
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 …
This web site would seem to indicate that a good number of Moz devs have been asleep until - well for another couple of hours.
Since most people by now are (have no excuse not to be) careful to use unique passwords for (most) places they visit, the exposure of these password hashes shouldn't be a big deal.
Those e-mail addresses, MY e-mail address, on the other hand...
Another good reason to set up a bunch of e-mail aliases on your mail host and use those instead of your "real" address when dealing with those sites you can get away with it on.
The only bright side is that somewhere some purveyer of customer e-mail info just lost a ton of potential sales because there's another 70K of addresses freely available on the Internet.
P.S. What's next, Mozilla, metadata from your bug reporting system?
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What does this have to do with The Reg? As a political organisation, Mozilla's dwindling technical competency is irrelevant. What matters is that they remain free of counter-progressive thought criminals. It's not like whoever was responsible supported prop 8 or anything. Now THAT would be a "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader" (formerly known as sackable) offence.