{"id":6729,"date":"2012-09-26T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2012-09-26T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T10:59:34","slug":"trade-group-exposes-100000-passwords-for-google-apple-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6729","title":{"rendered":"Trade group exposes 100,000 passwords for Google, Apple engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is certainly unfortunate this information was leaked out, and who knows who got it before it got fixed,&#8221; Dragusin wrote. Elsewhere in the post he said: &#8220;If leaving an FTP directory containing 100GB worth of logs publicly open could be a simple mistake in setting access permissions, <strong>keeping both usernames and passwords in plaintext is much more troublesome<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2012\/09\/ieee-trade-group-exposes-100000-password-for-google-apple-engineers\/\">Trade group exposes 100,000 passwords for Google, Apple engineers | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Update:<\/strong> An IEEE spokeswoman emailed the following statement: &#8220;IEEE has become aware of an incident regarding inadvertent access to unencrypted log files containing user IDs and passwords. We have conducted a thorough investigation and the issue has been addressed and resolved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of all groups that have membership websites which store passwords, IEEE would be the last on a list I would suspect to have something like this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is certainly unfortunate this information was leaked out, and who knows who got it before it got fixed,&#8221; Dragusin wrote. Elsewhere in the post he said: &#8220;If leaving an FTP directory containing 100GB worth of logs publicly open could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[338,343,794,632],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-encryption","tag-ieee","tag-oops","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}