Brain drain: Mensa’s website suffers security breach
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British Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, failed to properly secure the passwords on its website, prompting a hack on its website that has resulted in the theft of members’ personal data.
Eugene Hopkinson, a former director and technology officer at British Mensa, stood down this week, claiming that the organization had failed to secure the data of its 18,000 members properly, according to a report in the FT.
Hopkinson claimed that the stored passwords of Mensa members were not hashed, potentially allowing hackers