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Comment Re:Who knew? (Score 1) 160

by radudragusin on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:28AM (#41463881) Attached to: Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords

Who knew Wichita was such a practical HOTBED of IEEE membership?

Very good point. Actually, some IPs could only be located at country level, i.e. USA. Wichita seems to be right in the center of USA. Radu Author of the report from ieeelog.com

Submission + - IEEE data breach 100k plaintext passwords for ieee.org members revealed (ieeelog.com)

Submitted by radudragusin on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:20AM

radudragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly available on their FTP server for at least one month prior to my discovery. Among the almost 100.000 compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, as well as researchers from NASA, Stanford and many other places. I did not and will not make the raw data available, but I took the liberty to analyse it briefly.

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