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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw

 
 

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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw

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