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Daily Mail Data Breach (2013)

Daily Mail

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Disclosed

August 1, 2013

4621 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Human Error

Industry

Technology

Description

Middle England will be shocked to discover that the Daily Mail's website, the world's most read online newspaper, has only gone and admitted to a shameful data security cock-up. The publication - which is known for displaying loads of pictures of tits and ass online normally alongside an equal amount of outrage about tits and ass online - has alerted world+dog that there was an "URGENT problem" with its users' profiles. Last night we had a technical issue with our user profile and login service that resulted in a bug with the display of user profiles. When viewing your profile page users were presented with a copy of another user's profile page instead of their own. The issue is now resolved.