Groupon Leaks Indian User Database to the Web

[Guest]

Another password leak: This time a site was not hacked, but it posted its entire user database to the web by itself.

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[NuclearShadow]

All I have to say to this article is.... Facepalm

[citation][nom]widream[/nom]Good products, and look forward to meet user!!!!![/citation]

All I have to say to this comment is.... Facepalm

 

[Rab1d-BDGR]

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]All I have to say to this article is.... Facepalm All I have to say to this comment is.... Facepalm[/citation]

He is a spammer, of sorts. I dunno if Tom's is filtering out part of his post or something. Either way I've seen a lot of this spammed across the comments lately.

...Reported!

 

[rohitbaran]

This is the reason I have stopped joining new web services. The more you join, the more you risk to lose.

 

[bebangs]

google search
"filetype:sql india database password"
"filetype:sql database password"

results - WTF!!!

am i hacking? ^_^

 

[jsc]

I do not think so. If they had put everything behind even a simple "abc" password and you went looking, that would be hacking.

Here, they left everything in the open for people to stumble over.

 

[Rab1d-BDGR]

There is absolutely no reason to store passwords in plain text, if that is indeed what they did. I really hope these "hackers" just got password hashes and salts out because otherwise Groupon's incompetence has reached a whole new level.

Tom's, you don't store our passwords in plain text... do you?

 

[eddieroolz]

Oh, the work of a disgruntled worker perhaps?

 

[fir_ser]

IT security these days is laughable.

 

[ojas]

Sosasta is a combo of so and sasta. Sasta = cheap in Hindi. 'So' is still the English 'so' here.

So cheap. yes, the security certainly was.