Props to Oliver Keyes for discovering this issue and bringing it to
people's attention.


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Christian Aistleitner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Columns for country data in EventLogging tables sometimes not only
> contain the country code, but also larger chunks of the client
> cookies, which may put sensitive data into the tables.
>
> The corresponding bug is
>   https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66478
>
> At least
>   NavigationTiming
>   MultimediaViewerNetworkPerformance
> schemas for end of April 2014 onwards are affected.
>
> If you publish reports exposing the country information/aggregates,
> please make sure to validate the country data against exposing
> sensitive information, or remove the exposing reports until the issue
> is fixed.
>
> Sorry for the inconveniences,
> Christian
>
>
>
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