RockYou data breach
Most readers will have learned by now of RockYou’s massive data breach and the lousy way the company handled it. There is an interesting side to this story that I haven’t seen pointed out elsewhere.
As Bruce Schneier likes to point out, security (like so many other things…) follows the money. This excerpt from the statement RockYou issued in response to the incident provides a clear case in point:
[The breached] database had been kept on a legacy platform (…) The platform breach did not impact any advertiser or publisher information, which we maintain on a separate and secure system that is not a legacy platform.
Yes, we at RockYou care about advertiser and publisher information, because that’s where out revenues come from. Those darned users who only use system resources and bandwidth, on the other hand…
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