Kickstarter Lapse Leaves 70,000 Project Ideas Exposed

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Hey, you know what would be a good idea? A Kickstarter to get these guys some security. :D

On Friday one of our engineers uncovered a bug involving Kickstarter's private API, which is used to display projects on the Kickstarter homepage. This bug allowed some data from unlaunched projects to be made accessible via the API. It was immediately fixed upon discovering the error. No account or financial data of any kind was made accessible.
 
Everyone knows you ship first and worry about quality (security, ethics, etc) later.
 
It doesn't seem like it was too much of a problem. The only stuff that could end up getting leaked from this was stuff that was all going to be made public anyway. All this would do would be to let someone have a sneak peek.
 
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