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8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB
Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub's behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service.
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- 184
- HN comments
- 84
- Submissions
- 1
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- 3 commenters
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2016 | 8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB by jashkenas | 184 | 84 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Dec 2016 to Apr 2022.
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