Acer Europe Customer Details Exposed

[altonius <altonius () gmail com>]

According to a report<http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/40000-users-data-source-codes-server-of.html>from
The
Hacker News <http://www.thehackernews.com/>, the personal data of
approximately 40,000 Acer <http://www.acer.com/> customers were made
available online via the company's Acer-Euro.com <http://acer-euro.com/> FTP
server. The 13 MB ZIP archive contained an Excel spreadsheet with the
various customer details, including first and last names, country of
residence and email addresses, as well as product model and serial numbers
owned by these customers.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Acer-inadvertently-releases-40-000-customer-details-1255998.html

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