Researcher: IEEE website exposed usernames, passwords on 100,000 members in plaintext

Romanian researcher says he discovered a data breach in an FTP server owned by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IEEE is a professional association that advocates “technical excellence” and has about 400,000 members. Among the almost 100,000 compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, the researcher says. He says he has shared the information with the IEEE and believes it has “fixed (at least partially) the problem” The IEEE was not immediately available to comment on this.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2132303/researcher–ieee-website-exposed-usernames–passwords-on-100-000-members-in-plaintex.html