Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses

netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times."

Re:Blunder

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish there was mod points for long winded waste of time

Verizon responds

[MarkGriz]

"We just wanted to make sure you could hear us now"

Re:Blunder

[Spacepup]

Spammers attend these conferences. Now spammers have known email addresses of everyone there.

If it's just spammers attending, then they only got the email addresses of other spammers. The spammers can spam themselves all they want for all I care.

Re:Blunder

[Ethanol-fueled]

As your score(1, insightful @ 12:38pm pacific time) demonstrates, there are mod points available for short-winded wastes of time.

Times Time Times Time

[arizwebfoot]

and they did it 17 times.

They were afraid that if they did it 18 times, it might look suspicious.

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Oh Well, Bad Karma and all . . .

Re:I know this is /. and all...

[Anonymous Coward]

As you said, this is /. Appreciate the irony dammit...

They aren't the only ones

[Anonymous Coward]

Just this morning, I got an email from bandwidth.com addressed to 1250 other customers.

I guess it is good I went with them instead of verizon, now I have even more email addresses to spam!

Re:Simple fix: boycot & save time

[mrchaotica]

...a thing like this would immediately make me loose interest...

Why, was your interest tight before?

Re:Blunder

[Anonymous Coward]

you showed him dude, I certainly wouldn't want to be him because I would be reeling from that burn

Re:Title is Misleading

[flyingsquid]

It's not that Verizon exposed "the wrong" 1200 emails, it's that Verizon exposed any email addresses at all.

While I agree that the email slip-up was pretty bad, I was more concerned about some of the other sensitive information that Verizon publicized. In addition to those 1200 emails, Verizon also emailed other sensitive information including:

1.the secret herbs and spices that go into KFC's chicken

2. the combination to the door of the Bat Cave

3.The location of Dick Cheney's 'undisclosed location'

4. The chemical composition of Kryptonite

5. The burial site of Jimmy Hoffa

6. the nuclear launch codes for U.S. Trident nuclear missile submarines

7. the full name, post office box address, and social security number of the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's Man with No Name

8. the address and repository information for that government warehouse that contains the Ark of the Covenant (it's on rack 12, shelf 7, box 336)

Re:Title is Misleading

[Teun]

No, no.

Verison is so sure about their new security policies that they wanted to show the experts that publishing their collective addresses is no longer a problem.

Re:Blunder

[Anonymous Coward]

enforces the theory that it only takes one idiot to... the whole internet.

You accidentally... the internet? The whole thing?!

Re:Title is Misleading

[nog_lorp]

The chemical composition of kryptonite was already known - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. And it exists in nature too!

The person responsible...

[v(*_*)vvvv]

is dead. No really, someone killed him already. Securely and anonymously. We have a list of 1200 suspects and their names. Actually, 1200 people have a list of 1200 suspects and their names.