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Sensitive Document Leaking Archive Leaks Its Own Private Data

The Internet's top whistleblowing website, Wikileaks, has been faced with a though decision, as someone submitted for publishing a partial list containing the e-mail addresses of its own donors. The web archive administrators eventually published it. Wikileaks specializes in the publishing of sensitive and secr...

19 February 2009
06:29 GMT

US Attorney Office Discloses Informants' Names

The names of 25 witnesses in a federal investigation were disclosed after a worker for the US Attorney Office of Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago attached a confidential document when sending the criminal complaint to the press. The office wanted to announce the arrest of John Walsh and Charles Martin, principals of One...

12 January 2009
06:01 GMT

MI6 Top Secret Espionage Records Bought on eBay

A deliveryman from Hertfordshire, UK, bought a camera for £17 (around $30) from eBay. After returning from a vacation in the US, the man tried to download his pictures only to discover  images of rocket launchers and photos of al-Qaeda terrorists along with their names and  fingerprints.The records fo...

1 October 2008
08:03 GMT

ImageShack Flaw Exposes the IP Addresses of Uploaders

Christopher Boyd, Director of Malware Research for FaceTime Security Labs and Microsoft Security MVP, has come across a security flaw on the popular free image hosting service ImageShack through which anyone could have downloaded the log file associated with any image. Such a log file contains the IP address which wa...

29 September 2008
10:16 GMT

Important Scottish Newspaper Leaks Private Data

Users reported on Monday, according to The Register, that The Aberdeen Press and Journal website made public personal information of its registered members, through a simple URL manipulation. By simply changing a value in a URL, one could read sensitive information like the real name, home address, e-mail address and...

2 September 2008
10:56 GMT


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