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The Spread Firefox community marketing site has been compromised twice in the last few months<\/a>. Lots of the comments on the web criticise the site administrators for a) letting this happen, and b) their choice of technology to run the website but I think it’s interesting (and commendable, if a touch worrying) that they came clean and told registered users that their details may have been compromised.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many sites have been compromised and users haven’t been notified that their details are now in someone else’s possession…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spread Firefox community marketing site has been compromised twice in the last few months. 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