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Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords hashes

Unread postby Haider » December 28th, 2010, 9:26 am

On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozilla.org had been posted publicly by accident. If you registered for an account on addons.mozilla.org and you are one of the 44,000 users who might have been affected by this accidental disclosure, you already should have received an email notification from the Mozilla security team

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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Elrond » December 28th, 2010, 11:47 am

Another OOPS. :oops: mistake. ZB
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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Haider » December 28th, 2010, 1:21 pm

Hello Elrond:

This is the second ZB on my post from your end. Please let me know if I am making any mistake(s) by posting these here, if so please either delete or move them to appropriate section

Thanking you in advance
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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby wildman424 » December 28th, 2010, 1:51 pm

Elrond wrote:Another OOPS. :oops: mistake.

A BIG OOPS
looks like someone at Mozilla dropped the ball
thanks for sharing with us Haider
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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Alander » December 29th, 2010, 9:00 am

Haider wrote:Hello Elrond:

This is the second ZB on my post from your end. Please let me know if I am making any mistake(s) by posting these here, if so please either delete or move them to appropriate section

Thanking you in advance

ZB got nth to do with u making a mistake

it simply removes ur post from 0 reply list
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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Haider » December 29th, 2010, 9:18 am

Thanks Alander:

I appreciate your response, I should have put it separately, and I am still asking: Is it OK to have a topic like this in Debating Chamber? :?:
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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Elrond » December 29th, 2010, 10:11 am

It is fine Haider. No problem at all. Your posts often give us all a heads up. :)

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Re: Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords ha

Unread postby Haider » December 29th, 2010, 10:31 am

Thank you so much Elrond I really appreciate your response!
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