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Mystery surrounds the origin of a leak on Pastebin containing what looked like the full contact details on tech personnel at hundreds of UK organizations. The leaked document features names of people, the firms they worked for, email addresses, and phone numbers (mobile and landline). It surfaced on Sunday, and purported to …

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  1. Dan 55 Silver badge
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    Riddle me this

    Who'd want to smear Kaspersky and have the full contact details on tech personnel at hundreds of UK organizations?

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Paris Hilton

      Re: Riddle me this

      Hmmmm...... Opus Dei?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Now that would make a long list. Everything from criminals to governmental organizations. It doesn't help that Kaspersky himself is so lovable /sarcasm.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    The cure has become worse than the disease

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  4. The Vociferous Time Waster
    Holmes

    Occam's

    Some channel sales monkey knew he was about to be fired so popped the information in his CRM into pastebin so he could use it at his next gig. Happens all the time but normally it's emailed to a yahoo account rather than uploaded to a public site that anyone can see.

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  5. h4rm0ny

    Don't think it's Kapersky.

    It could be a partial list of course, but I've been a customer of Kapersky Labs for sometime and the relevant accounts are not on the list.

    Seems a little harsh for Kapersky's name to be emblazoned in the headline just for being the first to get back to El Reg with confirmation they aren't the source.

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