WeTransfer Shared Its Users' Files With the Wrong People (betanews.com) 24
WeTransfer, a popular online service to transfer and share files, has informed some of its customers of a security incident that resulted in it sharing emails with download links to wrong recipients. BetaNews reports: In the email to customers, WeTransfer said: "We are writing to let you know about a security incident in which a number of WeTransfer service emails were sent to the wrong people. This happened on June 16th and 17th. Our team has been working tirelessly to correct and contain this situation and find out how it happened. We have learned that a transfer you sent or received was also delivered to some people it was not meant to go to. Our records show those files have been accessed, but almost certainly by the intended recipient. Nevertheless, as a precaution we blocked the link to prevent further downloads.
Would using Rust have prevented this? (Score:3, Funny)
If their software had been written in the Rust programming language, would this bug have been prevented? I hear that Rust is an ultra secure new programming language, and this sounds like the kind of incident that really strong security may have prevented.
Sharing Economy (Score:1)
It's the "sharing economy", your files have been shared, don't worry, continue to trust the cloud. the cloud has your best interests in mind.
Oh wow.... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm a photographer in the field of fashion art nudes (naked women)
If anyone got my images by accident, sorry about that, those were meant for Vogue Italia.
Please let me know if you were affected. Thanks.
Gross incompetence at work (Score:2)
This is the one thing that must not happen. Of course, it happened. This indicates that they are using cheaper-than-possible personnel and should never have been trusted in the first place and certainly should never be trusted again.
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, this pretty much falls under the "You had one job..." meme.
In All Fairness (Score:2)