"Starting on about 23 June, for a period of 30 days," the organisation warned developers, "a data sanitisation process … had been failing, resulting in the accidental disclosure of MDN email addresses of about 76,000 users and encrypted passwords of about 4,000 users on a publicly accessible server".
You wind up entering your Eye-Fi account name and password about 30,000 times.
How about passwords as part of that process?
If there's one complaint I hear more than any other, however, it's about passwords.
More than 6m LinkedIn passwords and about 1.5m eHarmony passwords have reportedly been published.
"We started exchanging information and doing things that are obvious, like changing passwords, thinking about what to put online and what not to, how to deal with comments on Facebook and how to monitor ourselves more," says Nataly.
The theft didn't come to light until this spring, when a hacker claimed to have more than 100 million LinkedIn login names and passwords, or about a quarter of the Mountain View, Calif., company's user base.
The recent takeover of the Associated Press's Twitter account by Syrian hackers, which caused a momentary hundred-and-fifty-point drop in the Dow, is an example of the kind of havoc a stolen password can bring about.
Have a father-daughter/son talk about passwords, to thwart snooping roommates or a possible theft.
You should even include this comic in any post that you do about passwords because I think it conveys the idea of using words in a password.
