IEEE security breach: 100K plaintext passwords

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Heh, Bob beat me to it.  +1 to Mr. Stratton.

-r

Robert Stratton <bob at stratton.net> writes:

> Just a little public service announcement as I imagine that more than a few folks on this list are members. 
>
> "Due to several undoubtedly grave mistakes, the ieee.org account username and plaintext password of around 100,000 IEEE members were publicly available on the IEEE FTP server for at least one month. Furthermore, all the actions these users performed on the ieee.org website were also available. Separately, spectrum.ieee.org visitor activity is also publicly available. ​"
>
> http://ieeelog.com/
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