Kleiner Perkins / iFund Data Breach?


VentureBeat reports here on a data breach suffered by old school VC firm Kleiner Perkins that could be consequential:
[A]n SQL file from Kleiner Perkins’ (apparently former) hosting provider, Meteora Technologies Group, was dumped onto the web, where Google indexed it. This file contained 588 applications for new iPhone apps. As if leaking out your secret iPhone app plans isn’t bad enough, the file also contains names, email addresses and phone numbers. The file may also contain what could be sensitive financial information for these app makers (though after a quick look at the file, I’m not seeing much in the way of that).

Still, the information in this file is very interesting. It sounds like some people are working on some great apps!
California has a slew of data breach regulations to worry about - I'm not sure which if any apply.  Between Apple's penchant for secrecy and ticked off iPhone developers, though, I'd say this sounds like a headache.
 
Posted by Venkat at 12/3/2008 1:32 PM
Categories: Data Breach
 
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