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CueCat Spits Up Emails; Possible Security Breach

from the silly-people dept

Mon, Sep 18th 2000 3:08pm — Mike Masnick

Leo writes "Cuecat's database was hacked into and anyone who had signed up possibly had their email addresses exposed. They'll probably blame open source people. Story: CueCat Spits Up Emails; Possible Security Breach." The thing that amazes me is that anyone ever actually signed up for the CueCat service...

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William, 18 Sep 2000 @ 5:03pm

CueCat: Didn't Work
I installed on and it didn't work but about 50% of the time. I know it was free, but it should have worked. A friend tried it with the Linux driver, which didn't require registration, and his worked better. I suspect software glitches in the non-Linux version.
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Col. Klink (profile), 19 Sep 2000 @ 7:54am

Hacked, huh?
They had the registration file as a plain .txt file globally readable by http, and they claim it was a "hack".
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