Cloudbleed: How to Protect Yourself After the Data Leak

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Cloudflare revealed a bug in its code caused sensitive data to leak from major websites that use its services, including big names such as Uber, Fitbit, 1Password, and OkCupid.

There are an estimated 4.2 million domains using Cloudflare, which may have leaked data, including crypto keys, passwords, user sensitive information, and so on. The list is long and includes many big name services, as well as torrents, bitcoin sites and so on.

The bottom line is that no one really knows at this point exactly how many sites were affected by the data leak, especially since the information bled out over the course of five months before being discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy.

Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines have worked on scrubbing the data before Cloudflare went public with the bug in order ... (read more)

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