Talk:Fox News security hole exposes 1.5 million users' personal information

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Factual
I challenge the accuracy of the title: "Fox News security hole exposes 1.5 million users' personal information". According to the sources, they only mention "sensitive directories" not what this article claims. --SVTCobra 17:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You'll note that this article features firsthand reporting by a Wikinews.org member; that's where this article stands apart from everything else currently being reported.Bubbaprog 17:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Where are your notes then? And don't commingle the Ziff-Davis and the Fox breaches. --SVTCobra 17:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The Fox News oversight directly led to the exposure of the ZD user information. ZD was not "hacked" as the username and password were handed to the public by Fox News.Bubbaprog 17:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Where does the number 1.5 mil come from and why would login information include peoples phone numbers? I never get asked for that when signing up for a news site. --SVTCobra 17:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not login information, it's customer information. 1.5 million is a minimum number given the number of records known to be accessed; it's likely much, much higher, but I'm being conservative with what I've verified to be true.Bubbaprog 17:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I concede the factual basis of this story. Should the headline be changed to "Fox News security hole exposes 1.5M Ziff-Davis customers" ? --SVTCobra 21:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * As I understand ZD had Fox's data on one of their servers. By compromising a fox server information on how to access the data on the ZD server was obtained. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Original Reporting
This cannot be published without at least some notes. Particularly, what was exposed and how the reporter came to know this. Source names may be concealed, but you'll potentially have to get someone else to verify the details. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

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