Hundreds Of Gmail, Yahoo, MSN Passwords Exposed By Entertainment Web Site
Paul McDougall writes on InformationWeek:
A Los Angeles publisher of online lifestyle and entertainment magazines has inadvertently exposed the personal e-mail addresses and passwords for hundreds of its subscribers, InformationWeek has learned.More here.
The victims are all members of sites operated by Splash Magazines Worldwide, which publishes local versions of its magazines under URLs like NYCSplash.com and LASplash.com.
The list of e-mail addresses and passwords for members' Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other accounts would turn up in the results of unrelated Google searches Monday if those searches happened to contain at least two keywords that matched the names of Splash members. InformationWeek confirmed that the security hole was still open as of 4 p.m. Monday.
Splash founder Larry Davis said in an interview that he was not aware of the security problem and did not know how it could have occurred. "We have a Webmaster who is supposed to know all about security," said Davis.
posted by Fergie @ 3/27/2007 11:06:00 AM
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