Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data

wiredmikey writes "Mozilla yesterday sent an email to registered users of its addons.mozilla.org site, letting them know that it had mistakenly posted a file to a publicly available Web server which contained data from its user database including email addresses, first and last names, and an md5 hash representation of user passwords."

Re:Kudos to Mozilla

[kestasjk]

Here at slashdot we try to be supportive when tech companies make mistakes; we never kick people when they're down or make fun.

Mozilla may not be our favorite tech company and we may not agree with their software development methodology; but damn it we're not going to treat them any differently, and will give them our support just like we would any down-on-their-luck company which made a silly one-off mistake!

Re:Mozilla's public disclosure

[Yvanhoe]

I always wondered what the implications of password reuse were...
http://xkcd.com/792/ [xkcd.com]
Ok, maybe not that bad

Re:Don't fret before reading TFA...

[Anonymous Coward]

I just checked with the RIAA and they said that it is likely that thousands of people downloaded it from that person's machine.