Red flags and broken promises are going to be addressed. I have not ignored that. I have reported bad news such as the breach.
Again the Title is "GAW Claims" not me not the site the claim is on them and I wanted that clear. If you choose to read it as me absolving them of the issue that is fine but that is not the intention.
I do not work for GAW and have not. If I could work I would be back to running networks and mining bitcoin.
I read the article you published about the data breach and thought it was a PR job when I read it the first time. Your claim here is that no one spoke to GAW and you wanted to get their side of the story. So, I went back and just read your questions without GAW's responses. In my opinion, your questions are very leading and it seems you are spinning the story a certain way. Especially when you editorialize with comments like "So while there was a glitch it was not a massive data leak or a breach. GAWMiners responded quickly to the error and cleared up the issue" what you are doing is releasing a PR piece for GAW. That's fine but call it what it is. If the goal was to get GAW's side of the story, just let them say their piece without your own comments. For the record, when you can see customer PII such as personal email addresses and account balances, even if it's a static picture, it's a data breach.
If you really wanted to find out what happened, perhaps you could have talked to CloudFlare to find out how things like this happen. I'm going to guess it's improper programming. Especially when a coding change by GAW seems to fix the issue. However, I'm not positive because I haven't spoken to CloudFlare to get their side or reviewed any of their best practices material (if they have it).
As an aside, the GAW response to this issue reminds me of a software engineer I had on a project once who asked me to open a trouble ticket with Sun. There was obviously a bug in their CPU since his code didn't work. I told him to check his java libs and dependencies but he insisted that the error was with Sun's CPU and he had even isolated the problem. I didn't open the ticket. He finally figured out there was a lib mismatch.
a news site should always question the community for proof not the company with vested interested. when the apple photo leak from icloud happened apple denied an issue ... of course they would. we the community actually logged in to other accounts. for a news site to ignore that is pathetic!
i ask ccn this and manebjorn does seeing peoples address and personal details justify a data breach/leak? its a simple question. to answer yes and not report that as happening is to pull the wool over viewers eyes.
it's like isis murdering people and reporting only their side to justify it!
I am sure many of us would get together and make some funds available to pay you for your time.