Security breach closes Mozilla store, Firefox bugs fixed
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A security breach yesterday caused Mozilla to shut down the Mozilla Store, the online download center for software products from the maker of the second-most popular web browser. GatewayCDI, the vendor that operates the backend of the Mozilla Store, suffered a security breach, Mozilla said.
Customers of the store may have had their login data security compromised and Mozilla encouraged GatewayCDI to quickly inform people whose data was compromised in the breach, Mozilla said.
"Once notified, we took the immediate preventative step of shutting down the Mozilla Store to ensure that no additional users could be compromised," Mozilla said on its company blog Tuesday.
The International Mozilla Store has also temporarily been shut down as a precautionary measure, while the Mozilla Community Store was not impacted by the breach.
Meanwhile, Mozilla was busy over the weekend providing a security update to the Firefox web browser. Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.13 were made available for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Sunday.
Mozilla said Firefox has been downloaded more than 1 billion times.
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