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MP’s password accidentally leaked

Posted on August 17, 2009 by pogowasright.org

Dizzy of the Dizzy Thinks blog was searching on Google for information on an article by Gisela Stuart MP for Birmingham Edgebaston and found a lot more than he expected. The results returned a link to an entry on the MP’s own web site which included her user name and password for managing the sites CMS.

According to the web design company responsible, the messages were the result of a data migration from a previous system resulting in the creation of twenty five rogue entries.

Read more on The H.

Thanks to Brian Honan for this link.

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