Backyard tens of thousands of Firefox developer mailboxes and passwords have been leaked

"TechWeb Report" August 4 News, according to foreign media reports, Firefox browser official issued a warning in Friday that due to database failures, tens of thousands of Firefox developers ' mailboxes and passwords have been leaked, and this data is likely to be exploited by hackers. According to one blogger, about 76,000 e-mail addresses and 4,000 hashed passwords are stored on a publicly accessible server from the one months beginning June 23. There is no sign of access to the data, but Firefox officials do not rule out the possibility. Hackers who might have cracked the hash could not log on to the Firefox Developer Network account with the corresponding password, but they could use it to invade user accounts with the same password. This failure was triggered by a failed data cleansing process and led to the entry of these mailbox addresses and hashed passwords into a publicly accessible server. Joe Stevensen, director of the Firefox developer Partnership, Stormy Peters and the operation Security manager, said he was sorry for the problem and suggested that users who had their mailboxes and passwords be replaced with a password, and pledged to take steps to reduce such occurrences.