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Ad-blocking tool Ghostery suffered from a pretty impressive, self-inflicted screwup Friday when the privacy-minded company accidentally CCed hundreds of its users in an email, revealing their addresses to all recipients.
Fittingly, the inadvertent data exposure came in the form of an email updating Ghostery users about the company's data collection policies. The ad blocker was sending out the message to affirm its commitment to user privacy as the European Union's digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), goes into effect.
The email arrived in inboxes with the subject line "Happy GDPR Day — We've got you covered!" In the body of the email, the company informed users, "We at Ghostery hold ourselves to a high standard when it comes to users' privacy, and have implemented measures to reinforce security and ensure compliance with all aspects of this new legislation."
Source: https://gizmodo.com/ad-blocker-ghostery-celebrates-gdpr-day-by-revealing-hu-1826338313
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Sunday May 27 2018, @11:47PM
Similar thing happened at a large government department years ago. However, the guy who wrote "Don't reply-all!" in a reply-all was also yelled at by others, writing "Don't tell us not to reply-all in a reply-all you hypocrite!".
Things devolved from there and a few hundred messages later (including messages like "Hi Mom" and "This is fun!" to tens of thousands of recipients), IT shut the entire service down for several hours to put a lid on it.
Your tax dollars at work.