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by mvdtnz 481 days ago
Why is there customer data in code repositories?

> The customer data had been “inadvertently copied to the repositories for debugging purposes,” according to an email obtained by The Verge.

What on earth? How is this possible?

> we audited the contents of the repositories, and we found that in isolated instances, certain customer information had been inadvertently copied to the repositories for debugging purposes.

"instances". Plural.