Mozilla Leaks 44,000 User Passwords
Oops
It looks like the database of 44,000 inactive addons.mozilla.org accounts has been mistakenly left on a public Mozilla server.
According to the official blog post, it affects accounts created prior to April 9th, 2009 that use older, md5-based password hashes. As of today, all the data is secured with SHA-512 password hash.
Impacted users were notified on December 27th and potential treat has been already removed.
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Wow, big slip from the browser dev that’s probably the most security conscious… Good stuff I wasn’t affected.
Mozilla is sinking deeper and deeper..
Just go ahead and keep believing in that,believe in your little fairy tale.