A database of inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was uncovered on the World wide web earlier this month, the Mozilla Foundation disclosed on Tuesday.
The database, which contained 44,000 inactive consumer accounts for the addons.mozilla.org web site, was inadvertently positioned on a public-dealing with Net server, wrote Chris Lyon, the Mozilla director of infrastructure security, in a blog site posting.
Lyon stressed that the publicity “posed minimal threat to end users.” The organization erased all the passwords, which have been encrypted. It also accounted for each and every download of the database.
Existing users of addons.mozilla.org are not affected, because… Continue reading
