Veritas email faux-pas adds insult to injury for exam candidates

An email BCC snafu has seen Symantec-owned Veritas – while trying to deal with an information leakage – out roughly 200 of its partners to each other after it sent all of them an email telling them about the Pearson VUE data breach. The breach at the Pearson Credential Manager (PCM) was announced on 23 November. However, …

[Doctor Syntax]

What's another information leak between friends?

[elDog]

Fortunately, they don't appear to have leaked my private bits

You know, the little list of "fun" people and how to contact them and what they like to do.

Or my miniscule bank balances in some far-a-way places that I set up via a cousin.

Or my minor medical problems involving stuff "down there".

Only google can do that. Or perhaps Apple, Microsoft, Friendlies.

[Anonymous Coward]

why does; "all passwords in this database were encrypted", not fill me with confidence? Encrypted implies it can be decrypted with a decryption key. Salted and hashed would make me feel slightly better.