Cryptome grudgingly admits to leak of users' ancient IP addresses

  • 12 October 2015
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12 Oct 2015 at 00:58, Richard Chirgwin
 
Venerable leak site Cryptome.org has 'fessed up to a data leak that saw some users' IP addresses reach the Internet.
After initially dismissing data posted by security researcher Michael Best as a mockup, Cryptome founder John Young conceded that a USB key sent to some of the site's supporters included site statistics data containing the IP addresses.
 
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Cryptome simply got caught with its pants down as the old saying goes. They really did not have a choice in this matter.

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