Necuno
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so was it you?
Did he change an url ?
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Afrihost client data leaked: company apologises and explains
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Did he change an url ?
Whilst it is was very good that Afrihost owned up but why only on a public forum?
Afrihost is capable of sending its customers emails of promotions to all its customers so why not an email on this more important issue?
Afrihost is capable of sending its customers emails of promotions to all its customers so why not an email on this more important issue?
they owned up to a the media and are investigating. No doubt an email - which has been indicated is in the works - will be issued once they've got a proper email composed.
5plus2equals9
Well-Known Member
The service that you provide at all other times more than makes up for this blunder.
All in due course I think, since the info came from mybroadband it makes sense to make an announcement here while investigating who to contact as not to raise alarm needlessly. Well done guys, well handled and thanks to always owning up to mistakes.
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
so was it you?
It was not me. Don't know why everyone assumes it was me when something breaks or leaks on the internet
Damage control. They know they cant avoid the tech minded people of MyBB. So they have to be super nice here. However, they also know that their mybb users are a small but vocal minority. The only damage control they really have to do is here. They can get away with not telling everyone else. But I may be wrong an they may send an email to everyone
TrueCartman
Well-Known Member
Yeah...Not to fussed..You can get my info from a few places. Like running a search on the property number will actually give you way more info than that. But let me be a typical consumer...Rabble rabble rabble...Give me free gigs....Rabble rabble rabble.... 
so your advancing the proposition that the detector of the leak should get free internet for life is simply as a matter of principle. It could make for an interesting election promise - free internet for life for whistleblowersIt was not me. Don't know why everyone assumes it was me when something breaks or leaks on the internet
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
Call it a bounty, finders fee or whatever. In all cases someone pointing out something flawed has good intentions. I am sure that instead of opening a criminal case, Afrihost would have thanked the reporter of the issue instead of being ungrateful
Look up Dodd-Frank financial reform law and you will see what I mean - it's a common practise to expose fraud and other irregularities and whistleblowers get awarded between 10-30%.
Call it a bounty, finders fee or whatever. In all cases someone pointing out something flawed has good intentions. I am sure that instead of opening a criminal case, Afrihost would have thanked the reporter of the issue instead of being ungrateful
Yup, quite so.
Just after the CoJ debacle a MyBB member mentioned a bug in AH's invoice system, I noticed it too, and reported it to their tech team. After communicating some proof of the glitch, they thanked me and fixed it.
I am a full fan of the exposure for reward approach but the tendency is to tie it to the money saved by the entity or a % of the fine imposed. This notion of free internet for life for whistleblowers however has me thinking ...Call it a bounty, finders fee or whatever. In all cases someone pointing out something flawed has good intentions. I am sure that instead of opening a criminal case, Afrihost would have thanked the reporter of the issue instead of being ungrateful
Look up Dodd-Frank financial reform law and you will see what I mean - it's a common practise to expose fraud and other irregularities and whistleblowers get awarded between 10-30%.
MagicDude4Eva
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Well, the Dodd-Frank law was really about incentivising people exposing fraud at the stock-exchange - in most cases whistleblowers in the financial sectors will lose their jobs so at least that incentive will cover them to a certain degree. I also don't agree that offering a bounty will be helpful (we did this at a previous company to incentivise the finding of bugs and guess what: developers spent more time taking other people's code apart than their own work).
I think AH has handled the incident well - issues of that nature will always occur and as embarrassing as it might be and as obvious the mistake might be in hindsight, I do think that for example POPI should not be applied in a case like that. There should be some room for human error vs being negligent (I guess one can see this either way or?).
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
No email yet. Maybe I'm one of the (un)lucky few...
Gian, dude....wtf??
The Protection of Personal Information Bill was signed last week. Have you guys not been paying attention in this space?
I don't care how sincerely you apologise. You didn't get permission to use the information in the manner in which it was used from the data subject. Data Privacy 101.
The Protection of Personal Information Bill was signed last week. Have you guys not been paying attention in this space?
I don't care how sincerely you apologise. You didn't get permission to use the information in the manner in which it was used from the data subject. Data Privacy 101.