On February 26th, WIRED's security reporter Andy Greenberg received an email from Sophia Tupolev, the head of communications at the security firm Beame.io, saying she'd found a security issue on WIRED.com. Tupolev's company had discovered sensitive data in the source code on many pages on our site, including obfuscated, "hashed" passwords and email addresses for current and former WIRED writers. We corrected the problem right away.
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