{"id":6788,"date":"2013-04-03T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14437"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:30:38","slug":"oops-startup-digitalocean-forgets-to-format-recycled-drives-exposing-private-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/oops-startup-digitalocean-forgets-to-format-recycled-drives-exposing-private-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Startup DigitalOcean Forgets to Format Recycled Drives, Exposing Private Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Wired has a cautionary tale for you to read as you consider the perils as well as the promise of could computing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>New York startup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/\">DigitalOcean<\/a>\u00a0says that its cloud server platform may be leaking data between its customers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Kenneth White stumbled across several gigabytes of someone else\u2019s data when he was noodling around on DigitalOcean\u2019s service last week. White, who is chief of biomedical informatics with Social and Scientific Systems, found e-mail addresses, web links, website code and even strings that look like usernames and passwords \u2014 things like\u00a01234qwe\u00a0and\u00a01234567passwd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The problem started in mid-January, when DigitalOcean introduced a new solid state drive storage service. \u201cThe code that wipes the data \u2014 that securely deletes the data \u2014 was not being activated under the new SSD storage plans,\u201d according to DigitalOcean CEO Ben Uretsky .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2013\/04\/digitalocean\/\">details<\/a> (and weep).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d308aefd-7ee5-4963-9285-1ea4520f2f66\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/lpCyDk1z6O8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a cautionary tale for you to read as you consider the perils as well as the promise of could computing. New York startup\u00a0DigitalOcean\u00a0says that its cloud server platform may be leaking data between its customers. Kenneth White stumbled across several gigabytes of someone else\u2019s data when he was noodling around on DigitalOcean\u2019s service [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535,1534,1153,1009,1012],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitalocean","category-fail","category-solid-state-drive","category-start-up","category-wired","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}