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El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Dissent

Say it ain’t so, Joe! 

The Register has disclosed their own data breach – an e-mail gaffe:

Between 8:58 and 10:20 this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers.

Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the norm for all of our mailers was over-looked because someone was in a hurry.

We would like to offer our genuine and humble apologies for the error.

If you would like to vent at that someone, their email address is here: [email protected].

We are in the process of blowing the whistle on ourselves to the ICO over the matter. ®

Kudos to them for the prompt and full disclosure. If there are any small consolations, guys, this will only be “FRINGE” incident on DataLossDB.org, and your ICO is unlikely to do anything serious.

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