So we are expected to just shrug off a leak of PII collected from self-hosted instances?

I would normally agree with you, but this was an egregious violation of trust.

Realistically, you don't want to fire the person that makes this mistake. It pretty much is _never_ going to happen again for that employee, it's burned in their mind now.

The information that leaked was not collected from self-hosted instances. It was from Sourcegraph.com, which contains generally less sensitive information than self-hosted instances. See https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/security-update-august-20... for full information.

Do you have a response to the current top comment of this submission?

> Sourcegraph seems to have collected a bunch of these (now leaked) email addresses from signups on self-hosted instances.

> I remember being very surprised when I was signed up to their mailing list after I made an account on my self-hosted instance, and I'm not sure about the ethics (and legality) of collecting these in the first place.

Hey, Diego Comas here, Sourcegraph's Head of Security.

The only email addresses that were exposed were those of users who have accounts on Sourcegraph.com, not those of the installers or users of Sourcegraph self-hosted or cloud instances. Note that sometimes users have accounts on both platforms, though (e.g. for license key management). And as you mention, while we do collect the email addresses of the initial installers of self-hosted instances only, for security, product, and marketing updates per our TOS and privacy policy(https://about.sourcegraph.com/terms/privacy), those email addresses were not exposed since they are not stored on Sourcegraph.com.

I think we're reading different articles, no employee leaked any PII. You're angry about something that didn't happen.