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WTF? DHS Mail List Meltdown Becomes Internet Party for Exposed Gov Workers

Kim Zetter writes on Threat Level:

A Department of Homeland Security mailing list that provides unclassified daily news reports on critical infrastructure information experienced a meltdown today when the list apparently got misconfigured and began routing any reply that someone sent to another person on the list to every subscriber on the list.

The list was further configured to reveal the e-mail address of the senders so that the names and contact details of hundreds of list members -- including government workers in critical infrastructure positions -- were exposed. The mishap also revealed an interesting tidbit -- at least one member of the list works in some capacity with Iran's Ministry of Defense.

posted by Fergie @ 10/03/2007 08:14:00 PM