Originally Posted by Trafton

I'm fine with human error, but this is unacceptable. I am glad they announced it, yes, but this could be hundreds of thousands of leaked passwords - passwords used for other purposes, too. As someone in the computer security field, if this was a company I worked with who did this, I would dump them immediately. Period.

They make the error, they should deserve the backlash. It's how it goes.