Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach

Re:Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach by ratg13 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:36AM (#33421028)

Problem with their cache (redis / elasticsearch / etc.)

Happens even to the best companies.

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Re:Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach by riknox on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:38AM (#33421050)

Interesting how many people go straight to the cache - seems like we've all been there when we're accidentally overwriting keys with the wrong data!

Experience is the best teacher I guess, although we all seem to be doomed to make the same mistakes.

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Re:Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach by Crosseye_Jack on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:19AM (#33421576)

Heck, at least it wasn't DNS... This time. DAMN YOU DNS!

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Re:Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach by lambic on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @11:18AM (#33422404)

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors." -- Leon Bambrick

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Re:Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Breach by dboreham on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @11:05AM (#33422194)

> Happens even to the best companies.

Er...no. This is an inexcusable screwup.

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