Richard Chirgwin reports:
Venerable leak site Cryptome.org has ‘fessed up to a data leak that saw some users’ IP addresses reach the Internet.
After initially dismissing data posted by security researcher Michael Best as a mockup, Cryptome founder John Young conceded that a USB key sent to some of the site’s supporters included site statistics data containing the IP addresses.
As Best posts, Young e-mailed him to agree that the data included on the dongles was Amazon Web Services statistics data: “Not the stats for Cryptome itself but for the Cartome sub-directory, for four months, November 2009-February 2010. Included in a full site restoration by ISP NetSol after a full shutdown in June 2013.”
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