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Workers fired from AOL after breach

August 22nd, 2006 by Rose DesRochers · 3 Comments

Two weeks ago, AOL released to the public domain an archive of their customers search habits over a period of 3 months. Elinor Mills, and Anne Broache, CNET News.com now report that, “Two AOL employees have been fired, and its chief technology officer is resigning, after the release of Web search data from thousands of AOL members prompted widespread criticism of the company.” Read Complete Article

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  • Bob!
    Wrote: Aug 23, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    Is it just me or does the word scapegoat jump to mind. I’m wondering just how responsible these people actually were for this, although I doubt we’ll ever here the trueth about this idiocy.

  • Dayngr
    Wrote: Aug 28, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    I’m not surprised in the the least. I left AOL after my personal information was given to several people in a chat room by an employee serving as a moderator for the chat room. Imagine my surprise to have my private information plastered all over a chat room filled with strangers. Nice.

    When I called to complain their response to me was “don’t go back to the chat room”. When I said that the issue wasn’t the chat room but the employee who accessed my info. They further insulted my intelligence by saying (referring to the chat room) “Well, if you knew that a park was dangerous would you walk through it alone at night”. They just didn’t grasp the concept that the issue wasn’t that the people in the chat room had my private info but that the info they recieved was only known by people @ AOL. They refused to even take the time to look into the issue.

    Most good companies can track which employees are accessing accounts. I’m sure if AOL took security as seriously as they like ot portray in their commercials they would have looked into this issue.

    In the end I left AOL and made sure I never referred a single soul to them ever again. As a computer instructor I made sure to guide my adult students away from AOL. I like to think of AOL as the McDonalds of the internet. Billions served but what they get is pretty crappy and potentially bad for you.

  • Damnz!
    Wrote: Sep 4, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    I’ve seen this story dugg and blogged about, but never seemed to get right.. Untill you showed up with this blog entry atleast :D .

    –Damnz!