Comments on: Astroglide data breach exposes customer information http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Top 10 Worst Privacy Breaches of 2007http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-58062 Top 10 Worst Privacy Breaches of 2007 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:10:38 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-58062 [...] a free sample of a personal lubricant going back to 2003. Michael Hampton first broke the story on Homeland Stupidity. Astroglide never notified customers of the breach and just tried to pass the buck by blaming [...] [...] a free sample of a personal lubricant going back to 2003. Michael Hampton first broke the story on Homeland Stupidity. Astroglide never notified customers of the breach and just tried to pass the buck by blaming [...]

]]> By: banal userhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-46777 banal user Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:26:36 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-46777 just for the record.. i use astroglide as umm.. hair gel. definitely not anything icky like sex with humans or otherwise. just for the record.. i use astroglide as umm.. hair gel. definitely not anything icky like sex with humans or otherwise.

]]> By: Life After Coffee » Astroglide leakhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-46166 Life After Coffee » Astroglide leak Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:09:32 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-46166 [...] a slippery situation I’m glad I’m not in… Don Burleson points out an article on Homeland Stupidity about a security breach from the Astroglide [...] [...] a slippery situation I’m glad I’m not in… Don Burleson points out an article on Homeland Stupidity about a security breach from the Astroglide [...]

]]> By: Huh?http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42495 Huh? Fri, 04 May 2007 20:01:27 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42495 So you are saying that sodomy and fornication are cool with you as long as you don't use a lubricant? Regardless, please stay out of the bedrooms of others...or perhaps you know this because you are a peeping tom? So you are saying that sodomy and fornication are cool with you as long as you don’t use a lubricant? Regardless, please stay out of the bedrooms of others…or perhaps you know this because you are a peeping tom?

]]> By: craschworks » Blog Archive » links for 2007-05-01http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42119 craschworks » Blog Archive » links for 2007-05-01 Tue, 01 May 2007 10:21:09 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42119 [...] Astroglide data breach exposes customer information - Homeland Stupidity Astroglide exposes customer information (tags: astroglide) [...] [...] Astroglide data breach exposes customer information – Homeland Stupidity Astroglide exposes customer information (tags: astroglide) [...]

]]> By: 0x000000http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42060 0x000000 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:04:48 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42060 Well, their problems aren't over yet. I found some other vulnerabilities in their domain. Among a few SQL injection points which allow me to authenticate as administrator. I contact them about this and give them some time to fix it before I disclose it.They sure need to fix their security issues. Well, their problems aren’t over yet. I found some other vulnerabilities in their domain. Among a few SQL injection points which allow me to authenticate as administrator. I contact them about this and give them some time to fix it before I disclose it.

They sure need to fix their security issues.

]]> By: Chronicles of Dissenthttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42001 Chronicles of Dissent Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:01:33 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-42001 [...] So we’re back to figuring out the “noindex,” “noarchive,” “nofollow” tags, etc., it seems. But once again, the bottom line is that the data were not behind a firewall and were on a public server. And as noted in previous blogs here and on Homeland Stupidity and Threat Level, the breach, however accidental, appears to violate the terms of their published privacy policy: Biofilm could face lawsuits over the leaks from some of the people on the lists, said Chris Hoofnagle, a senior staff attorney and privacy expert with the University of California Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. [...] [...] So we’re back to figuring out the “noindex,” “noarchive,” “nofollow” tags, etc., it seems. But once again, the bottom line is that the data were not behind a firewall and were on a public server. And as noted in previous blogs here and on Homeland Stupidity and Threat Level, the breach, however accidental, appears to violate the terms of their published privacy policy: Biofilm could face lawsuits over the leaks from some of the people on the lists, said Chris Hoofnagle, a senior staff attorney and privacy expert with the University of California Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. [...]

]]> By: Astroglide denies responsibility for customer information slip - Homeland Stupidityhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41703 Astroglide denies responsibility for customer information slip - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:18:37 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41703 [...] The breach was discovered last week when a customer looked up his name in Google and found his order for a free sample of Astroglide. The customer then contacted the company to complain. And while the company initially removed most of the personal information from its Web site, it had originally failed to remove all of it, and failed to have the information removed from Google’s cache. [...] [...] The breach was discovered last week when a customer looked up his name in Google and found his order for a free sample of Astroglide. The customer then contacted the company to complain. And while the company initially removed most of the personal information from its Web site, it had originally failed to remove all of it, and failed to have the information removed from Google’s cache. [...]

]]> By: Digital Identityhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41635 Digital Identity Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:07:00 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41635 <strong>If you've got nothing to hide, and all that...</strong>Summary... If you’ve got nothing to hide, and all that…

Summary…

]]> By: PBriscoe.com » Blog Archive » Lube Records Slip into Wrong Handshttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41589 PBriscoe.com » Blog Archive » Lube Records Slip into Wrong Hands Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:17:18 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41589 [...] HomelandStupidity [via BoingBoing] [...] [...] HomelandStupidity [via BoingBoing] [...]

]]> By: Consumeristhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41587 Consumerist Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:08:11 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41587 <strong>Astroglide Generously Provides The Internet With A List of 250k People Who Use Their Lube...</strong>Ever sign up for a free sample of Astroglide? If you used your real name and address it is probably on a list that Astroglide accidentally made available to the internet. The list, which features full names and addresses, but...... Astroglide Generously Provides The Internet With A List of 250k People Who Use Their Lube…

Ever sign up for a free sample of Astroglide? If you used your real name and address it is probably on a list that Astroglide accidentally made available to the internet. The list, which features full names and addresses, but……

]]> By: Daniellehttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41580 Danielle Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:30:06 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41580 I believe you were going by the fatwallet post here, or at least a copy of it over at Slickdeals. I was the first one to find this and link to the files publicly. In that case, though, you should know that my name is a woman's name. So "his own name" is incorrect.You should also know the files were removed prior to my posting, so AstroGlide did not do this in response to any public matter. I carefully searched for a record of someone else noticing this before making my post. I believe you were going by the fatwallet post here, or at least a copy of it over at Slickdeals. I was the first one to find this and link to the files publicly. In that case, though, you should know that my name is a woman’s name. So “his own name” is incorrect.

You should also know the files were removed prior to my posting, so AstroGlide did not do this in response to any public matter. I carefully searched for a record of someone else noticing this before making my post.

]]> By: furiousBlog - in my diatribe » the warm glow of cooking tubeshttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41571 furiousBlog - in my diatribe » the warm glow of cooking tubes Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:15:10 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41571 [...] Astroglide Sex Lube Company has bad data breach, didn’t clean up very well either…   [...] [...] Astroglide Sex Lube Company has bad data breach, didn’t clean up very well either…   [...]

]]> By: Astroglide suffers data breach - this ought to be interesting | TechWaghttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41568 Astroglide suffers data breach - this ought to be interesting | TechWag Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:51:22 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41568 [...] BoingBoing, Wired and Homeland Stupidity are reporting that the makers of sex lube Astroglide have suffered a major data breach where over 250,000 customers have had their data stolen. Seems that their customer listing was not adequatly protected, and Google was able to spider the customer list, meaning MSN and Yahoo were also able to spider their customer lists. Wired States: The files indexed by Google contain a total of 263,822 listings, each of which included a name and mailing addresses. No financial information was exposed. A random sampling included privacy conscious entries such as Current Resident and clearly fake entries for President George W. Bush and former Republican Senator Rick Santorum. Possibly less humorous are the tens of thousands of entries from people who used their real names. These included included doctors, programmers, students and a vice chancellor for a prestigious American university. Source: Wired [...] [...] BoingBoing, Wired and Homeland Stupidity are reporting that the makers of sex lube Astroglide have suffered a major data breach where over 250,000 customers have had their data stolen. Seems that their customer listing was not adequatly protected, and Google was able to spider the customer list, meaning MSN and Yahoo were also able to spider their customer lists. Wired States: The files indexed by Google contain a total of 263,822 listings, each of which included a name and mailing addresses. No financial information was exposed. A random sampling included privacy conscious entries such as Current Resident and clearly fake entries for President George W. Bush and former Republican Senator Rick Santorum. Possibly less humorous are the tens of thousands of entries from people who used their real names. These included included doctors, programmers, students and a vice chancellor for a prestigious American university. Source: Wired [...]

]]> By: Junkiness » Blog Archive » Thank God I Use KYhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41564 Junkiness » Blog Archive » Thank God I Use KY Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:48:25 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/21/astroglide-data-breach-exposes-customer-information/#comment-41564 [...] Makers of the popular personal lubricant Astroglide say they’ve had a data breach. The names and addresses of people who’ve purchased the product since 2003 were published online. The breach exposed information for as many as tens of thousands of Astroglide customers. The data was broken down by product and date and much of it is still available in Google’s cache. [...] [...] Makers of the popular personal lubricant Astroglide say they’ve had a data breach. The names and addresses of people who’ve purchased the product since 2003 were published online. The breach exposed information for as many as tens of thousands of Astroglide customers. The data was broken down by product and date and much of it is still available in Google’s cache. [...]

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