Virus Total is “sorry that someone fat fingered” and published data online

I know mistakes happen, and clearly I thought that this was an honest mistake.

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In recent days, we spotted and it got reboosted on Mastodon a post from databreaches. Its titled VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users.

Maybe whoever did it wanted to make sure the file was safe? I don’t know, but it always seemed to me that it was user error, and nothing more.

There is a link to something called “Layer 8” which is described as a human problem.

So … what are we supposed to do now, expect that all files are safe when we get them? I honestly don’t blame the person for doing this, even if it lead to a mistake.

Thanks for posting this, DataBreaches, we like the update.

I don’t expect this to happen again.