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Pinterest Patches Email Security Design Flaw
- Infosecurity, Wednesday, August 28, 2013 2:40 PM
Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest has patched up a hole in its design code that, if left open, would have exposed the names and email addresses of the social networks' more than 70 million users. security Researcher Dan Melamed pointed out that the back end flaw could have allowed a hacker to set up a bot which could have pulled the site's list of email addresses which could become the victims of malicious emails.
