The bug, discovered by The Wall Street Journal, stemmed from a website update in late April. No credit card numbers were accessible, but the bug "made accessible the project description, goal, duration, rewards, video, image, location, category and user name for unlaunched projects," according to Kickstarter's API blog. The blog went on to say that the bug was live from April 25 through May 11. The information wasn't available to casual users, but to programming-savvy visitors who accessed Kickstarter's API. Kickstarter claims that beyond what the WSJ accessed, only 48 projects were compromised.
"Obviously our users' data is incredibly important to us. Even though limited information was made accessible through this bug, it is completely unacceptable. We want to underline once again that zero account or financial information was at any time made accessible by this bug," the blog continued.
The incident comes after one of the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Kickstarter's founders, Yancey Strickler, recently announced that the platform has raised more than $200 million from 2 million backers and funded more than 22,000 projects in three years.
Check out the slideshow below for some of the wildest Kickstarter projects we saw last year.
[nggallery id=3491]