This morning I read the latest news from TechCrunch on my news page here on ThatsToday, that a hacker called ” Hacker Croll” e-mailed a bunch of internal documents from Twitter to Mike Arrington of Tech Crunch. Mike wrote that these files contain 310 confidential documents about executive meeting notes, financial projections, calendar and phone logs among other tings. He even states that these documents have information that is somewhat embarrassing to some people over at Twitter.
So what does Mike decide to do?
To publish selected information of course.
So first, what’s the reason of this security and information breach?
The documents were stolen from Google Apps, where the ”hacker” guessed some passwords and gained access to 310 secret documents. Is this Googles fault or the Twitters?
I’d say both. Google should enforce strong passwords, and Twitter should: 1. have strong passwords and 2. not having internal documents hosted in ”the cloud” If everyone is using Google then you don’t need to try very hard to find the information of a company right? The cloud is not safe!
Second, either this is a PR stunt from Twitter, or TechCrunch are publishing stolen documents, which is not cool to do. If someone steals my iPod, is it all right for him to sell it? I don’t think so. TechCrunch make money out of traffic and by publishing this information they are ”selling stolen goods”.