http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38248-atlassian-plugs-security-hole By Renai LeMay iTWire 13 April 2010 Australian collaborative software developer Atlassian today warned customers today that it had in the past several days plugged a security hole that could have compromised customer passwords. Australian collaborative software developer Atlassian today warned customers that it had in the past several days plugged a security hole that could have compromised customer passwords. "Around 9PM US PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach potentially exposed passwords for customers who purchased Atlassian products before July 2008," said the company's chief executive, Mike Cannon-Brookes (pictured), writing on the company’s corporate blog. "During July 2008, we migrated our customer database into Atlassian Crowd, our identity management product, and all customer passwords were encrypted. However, the old database table was not taken offline or deleted, and it is this database table that we believe could have been exposed during the breach." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Tue Apr 13 2010 - 22:25:16 PDT
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