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An Internet leak occurs when a party's confidential information is released to the public on the Internet. Various types of information and data can be, and have been, "leaked" to the Internet, the most common being personal information, computer software and source code, and artistic works such as books or albums. For example, a musical album is leaked if it has been made available to the public on the Internet before its official release date; and is still intended to be confidential. == Source code leaks == Source code leaks are usually caused by misconfiguration of software like CVS or FTP which allow people to get source files by exploiting, by software bugs, or by employees that have access to the sources of part of them revealing the code in order to harm the company. There were many cases of source code leaks in the history of software development. For example, in 2003 a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's Outlook to get the complete source of ''Half-Life 2'', which was under development at the time. The complete source was soon available in various file sharing networks. This leak was rumored to be the cause of the game's delay,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Half Life 2 Source-Code Leak Delays Debut )〕 but later was stated not to be. Also in 2003, source code to Diebold Election Systems Inc. voting machines was leaked. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University published a damning critique of Diebold's products, based on an analysis of the software. They found, for example, that it would be easy to program a counterfeit voting card to work with the machines and then use it to cast multiple votes inside the voting booth. Another case involved a partial leak of the source code to Microsoft Windows 2000. Two files containing Microsoft source code were circulating on the Internet. One contains a majority of the NT4 source code and the other contains a fraction of the Windows 2000 source code, reportedly about 15% of the total. This includes some networking code including Winsock and inet; as well as some shell code. It was feared that because of the leak, the number of security exploits would increase due to wider scrutiny of the source code. In 2004, partial (800 MB) proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware was made available in the internet. The site posted two files of source code written in the C programming language, which apparently enables some next-generation IPv6 functionality. News of the latest source code leak appeared on a Russian security site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SecurityLab )〕 In 2006, Anonymous hackers stole source code (about 1 GiB) for Symantec's pcAnywhere from the company's network. While confirmed in January 2012, it is still unclear how the hackers accessed the network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Symantec suspected source code breach back in 2006 )〕 In late 2007, the source code of Norton Ghost 12 and a Norton Anti-Spyware version were available via BitTorrent. In December 2007 and January 8, a Pirate Bay user published the sources of five (Idera ) SQL products via BitTorrent. In January 2011 the "stolen source code" of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2008 was published on the Pirate Bay. On May 20, 2011 leaked EVE Online source code was published by someone on a github repository. After being online for four days CCP issued a DMCA take-down request which was followed by github.〔(dmca/2011-05-24-cpp-virtual-world-operations.markdown ) on github.com〕 In December 2011, the source code of the Solaris 11 operating system was available via BitTorrent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Internet leak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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