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The big leak

FDA cyber breach: What was left behind after document trove pulled off Internet

July 23, 2012 7:00 AM UTC

Ironically, a plumbing operation FDA says was prompted by unauthorized leaks of commercial confidential information resulted in precisely the kind of release it sought to contain.

About 80,000 pages of sensitive agency documents that were inadvertently made accessible over the Internet for at least two months were removed from public view on July 13, but directories cataloguing the contents of the documents remained publicly accessible for at least another week...