111@zerobytes.monster to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoAPI Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Nameswww.hackread.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoYeh. Same as if it was a CSV mailing list on an unprotected URL or whatever. The term “data breach” suggests there was security there to be breeched. Maybe it needs a better term?
minus-squareunscholarly_source@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoData leak? In the security field, they categorize it as “information disclosure”… But it doesn’t have the same level of gravitas to it
Yeh.
Same as if it was a CSV mailing list on an unprotected URL or whatever.
The term “data breach” suggests there was security there to be breeched. Maybe it needs a better term?
Data leak? In the security field, they categorize it as “information disclosure”… But it doesn’t have the same level of gravitas to it