First published: 06th December 2012
An email Call for Papers for SERE 13, the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability, included the email addresses of 899 researchers in the "To:" field. Truncation of the last address suggests that a longer list was not disclosed only because of software limitations, and the full list was probably much longer. The last address started with "c", and the addresses were in alphabetical order, so the partial list has probably been disclosed to the full list of thousands of recipients.
SERE 13 will be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, but the message originated from Swinburne University, near Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Fei-Ching (Diana) Kuo, Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne is Publicity Chair of SERE 13.
Updated: 10th December 2012
In an email message, Dr. Kuo wrote, "Sorry for this mistake. We have some issues with the Outlook2010. Somehow the mailing list was added to TO instead of BCC this time. I am very sorry for the problem caused."