Mumsnet data leak: Moaning parents could see other users' privates after cloud migration

guest · Feb 8, 2019

Mumsnet data leak: Moaning parents could see other users' privates after cloud migration
Change reversed while forum probes how many affected
February 7, 2019
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/07/mumsnet_breach/

Justine Roberts, founder and CEO at Mumsnet, today told users: "We're very sorry to say that we've become aware of a data breach which affected some Mumsnet user accounts."
By logging into someone else's account, data on show could have included a user's email address, account details, posting history, and personal messages. Passwords were encrypted, the CEO said.

"We do know that approximately 4,000 user accounts were logged into in the period in question but we don't as yet know which of those were actually breached (i.e. also affected by mismatched login), although we know for sure it wasn't every account."

his isn't the first time the platform for snarky parents has suffered a security wobble: it was hit by the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability in 2014; and it was hacked in 2015.
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guest · Feb 8, 2019

Update:

February 8, 2019
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We've now determined that the total number of accounts affected by this breach was 46. We will be contacting those users that we haven't already advised within the next hour.

Sorry that there are some unanswered questions on here. To anyone with an outstanding query: if you could please come over to this thread and post it on there it would help the team to answer more quickly.
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