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fringe: El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER


From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:34:30 -0500 (CDT)


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/email_blunder/

El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Turning ourselves in to the ICO right now
By Team Register
24th October 2011 10:07 GMT

Between 8:58 and 10:20 BST this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you 
that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers.

Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the norm 
for all of our mailers was over-looked because someone was in a hurry.

We would like to offer our genuine and humble apologies for the error.

[..]

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