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Tower Records' Site Glitch Opens Users' Data

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Posted by: TotalRecall

C|Net reports that Tower Records' site was experiencing some bugs on their web site until the hole was discovered on Wednesday:

The glitch allowed anyone to peruse Tower Records' Web site to view its database of customer orders dating from 1996 through this week, including home and e-mail addresses, phone numbers and what music or video products were purchased. More than 3 million such records were exposed.

"It was a technical error, and when we discovered it we were fairly horrified and we fixed it in a matter of hours," a Tower representative said on Thursday. No credit card numbers appear to have been revealed, the company said.


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