Oops! McAfee discloses 1k customer e-mails

2011-11-30

Patrick Gray

http://risky.biz/mcafee-TO

McAfee Australia leaked 971 customer e-mail addresses in a botched e-mail marketing campaign last week.

The addresses of the recipients were placed in the visible TO field instead of the BCC field.

It's an all-too-common mistake, made especially embarrassing for McAfee because it's not the first time in recent memory something like this has happened.

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