Such a security gaffe may have enabled unauthorized visitors to log in and gain access to files undetected for more than six months on a server operated by Carmichael Lynch, a public relations and advertising firm with several big-name clients. The admin password was inadvertently published on a page that contained online job postings.
Among the files potentially exposed to outsiders: internal documents, including customer databases owned by two of the company's biggest clients, Porsche and American Standard.
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