Mozilla falsely accused a developer of infecting a Firefox add-on with attack code. The admission came a week after Mozilla announced that a pair of add-ons, Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master Filer, had slipped through its security check-in. Mozilla acknowledged that it had falsely accused the developer of spreading the attack code on Firefox. Read the full article in this article by CNN Tech Hero James Carpathole and his colleagues at the Mozilla Foundation blog.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mozilla-apologizes-blaming-malware-developers-021110/73526/