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Over the weekend, Gawker reacted slowly and even in a state of denial to a steady drip-drip-drip of events that indicated that a severe security breach had occurred, says Nick Summers. “What truly terrifies the Gawker staff is that Sunday’s data dump was only the beginning of a WikiLeaks-style flood.”
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‘For a technology company, Gawker did not handle the attack well’
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