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The Moonpig Bug: How 3,000,000 Customers' Details Were Exposed

It's been all over the British news today: developer Paul Price found a bug in photo-crap-maker Moonpig's site, one that might have exposed three million users' personal information. Paul's got a great technical post about it at https://www.darkport.co.uk/blog/moonp... -- but there's no decent non-techie explanation except for the one-paragraph summaries in newspapers. It was a perfect storm of tech incompetence: here's how to avoid doing it yourself.

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  • Originally Aired January 6, 2015
  • Runtime 5 minutes
  • Created July 30, 2023 by
    josh42
  • Modified July 30, 2023 by
    josh42