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Users’ passwords exposed by Splunk

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dissent

Oops — I meant to post this a few days ago, but just discovered it still sitting in the drafts folder…

Gavin Clarke reports:

Splunk, a kind of Google for business technology that boasts it can help re-enforce your security, has exposed the accounts of major customers to hackers following a web site slip up.

The passwords of customers on Splunk.com were revealed after some debug information leaked on to its production servers. The debug code exposed users passwords to Splunk.com as clear text, the company said.

[…]

Splunk has 1,750 customers including BT, Cisco, LikedIn, Nasa, Visa and the US Department of Energy. Its software is downloaded from the web and is used as a search, monitor and reporting tool that crawls through the raw data on applications, hardware and network systems.

Read more in The Register.

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