Jan 23, 2007 at 9:15am ET by Barry Schwartz
Vnunet reports that Google has admitted to the leak of passwords via the Google Blacklist. But Google has also issued a statement saying that they “procedures have been put in place to strip login information from future submissions.” As I noted yesterday, this is not the first time confidential information has been found in Google’s phishing blacklist, but hopefully, this will be the last time.
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