One example where there was a relationship: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-wont-charge-reporter-who-uncovered-database-flaw https://www.kshb.c

One example where there was a relationship: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-wont-charge-reporter-who-uncovered-database-flaw https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-wont-charge-... The developers had put things like teacher's SSNs into base64 strings by using asp.net's viewstate functionality, making it all publicly accessible. I guess not the best example since it was probably accidental obfuscation via base64, with that obfuscation making the leak hard to spot for the probably inexperienced dev team.