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If you store your corporate documents on other peoples servers you deserve what you get. What were they thinking ?

Confidential stuff should not leave the building, let alone be uploaded to 3rd party data centers. Keep in mind that just about anybody with sysadmin privileges at the company hosting your data also has access to all those documents.

As does anybody on the wire between you and the host during up or download.

Now let's hope somebody posts some of techcrunchs' internal and confidential documents. What goes around comes around.



Arrington says the vulnerability was in Google Apps for Your Domain, although the original article about the hack says otherwise:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164182/hacker_...

  Hacker Croll claimed to have accessed Goldman's Twitter
  password by first gaining access to his Yahoo account. 
  "One of the admins has a yahoo account, i've reset the
  password by answering to the secret question. Then, in
  the mailbox, i have found her [sic] twitter password," 
  Hacker Croll said Wednesday in a posting to an online
  discussion forum. "I've used social engineering only, 
  no exploit, no xss vulnerability, no backdoor, no sql
  injection."
I wonder why the hacker would send the documents to Techchrunch. He could have uploaded them somewhere and then submitted the link to Reddit.


> wonder why the hacker would send the documents to Techchrunch

The inference I got was they paid for them. BUT I stress that is only what I picked up - not seen anything concrete. Could explain it though.


I wondered the same thing. It's not like TC is going to publicize his hacker handle to get him credit. Seems like a disgruntled employee or user or spammer trying to stir up bad press for them.


> although the original article about the hack says otherwise

This article is from May 1. The same hacker has hacked again (unfortunately thru social engineering again)




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