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WHSmith Technical Error Exposes User Data to Entire Email List
- The Guardian, Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:28 PM
WHSmith, a newspaper and magazine in vendor in the UK, accidentally sent private user data to its customers thanks to a misconfigured "contact us" on its website. A customer that filled out the form had their data passed on to the entire mailing list, rather than just having it shared with the company. The company attributed the issue to a bug not a data breach.
