E-mail from MySQL includes addresses for 9,300 customers
June 17, 2006
Jaikumar Vijayan
An improperly composed mass e-mail sent yesterday by open-source database vendor MySQL AB erroneously included some 9,300 customer e-mail addresses in the body of the note -- not the information about a series of summer support specials the company meant to announce.
The error apparently occurred when a MySQL employee mistakenly pasted the e-mail addresses into the body of the e-mail as a message, rather than placing the addresses into the recipient address box on the e-mail form.
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
An improperly composed mass e-mail sent yesterday by open-source database vendor MySQL AB erroneously included some 9,300 customer e-mail addresses in the body of the note -- not the information about a series of summer support specials the company meant to announce.
The error apparently occurred when a MySQL employee mistakenly pasted the e-mail addresses into the body of the e-mail as a message, rather than placing the addresses into the recipient address box on the e-mail form.
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/