Mozilla warns of leaky developer network database

August 04, 2014

Mozilla’s website for developers leaked email addresses and encrypted passwords of registered users for about a month due to a database error, the organization said Friday.Email addresses for 76,000 Mozilla Development Network (MDN) users were exposed, along with around 4,000 encrypted passwords, wrote Stormy Peters, director of development relations, and Joe Stevensen, operations security manager in a blog post. Mozilla is notifying those affected.No malicious activity on the affected server was detected, but that does not mean the data wasn’t accessed, they wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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