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Oops. Kleiner Perkins Accidentially Publishes iFund Submissions Online

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If you or your company submitted your information to Kleiner Perkins to be considered for an investment from the VC firm’s $100 million iFund, you might want to see if your information has been leaked. Names, phone numbers, email addresses, business plans and bios from 588 applicants were accidentally published online by the firm’s former hosting provider, TechCrunch reports. Meteora Technologies Group published the data in a SQL file that was later cached by Google and found in a search on one of the companies listed. Fruux, which originally found the file, notified Kleiner Perkins of the privacy nightmare and the file was removed this morning. This latest data snafu is a reminder that information submitted via online forms like the one implemented by the VC firm is never completely safe, particularly when susceptible to human error, which appears to be the culprit in this case.

Dec 3, 2008 3:41 PM ET

Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, kpcb, kpcb ifund

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