Initially, I was shocked that they would post the stolen information. Eventually I realized that this is going to be publicly available regardless of whether Techcrunch posts it or not. The information would be released elsewhere. As a news site, they are unable to ignore its existence.
Techcrunch has discussed this with Twitter. They have also decided not to release private information. From this I can say that they are being fair about this.
This does suck for Twitter. Though, it does bring to light the potential dangers of using a web service to host your confidential documents.
"the original security hole seems to be Google, via Google Apps for your Domain. Some passwords were guessed and things started to fall apart from there. Most (or all) of these documents were downloaded from Google’s servers."
If you consider the sentence "Some passwords were guessed and..." in the above [ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-o... ] ( guessed! ) doesn't that say something's seriously wrong with some basic operational practices by core staff (i.e., weak passwords on core business accounts - which just happen to be Google accounts)?
Techcrunch has discussed this with Twitter. They have also decided not to release private information. From this I can say that they are being fair about this.
This does suck for Twitter. Though, it does bring to light the potential dangers of using a web service to host your confidential documents.
"the original security hole seems to be Google, via Google Apps for your Domain. Some passwords were guessed and things started to fall apart from there. Most (or all) of these documents were downloaded from Google’s servers."