Security issue?

[jObooW]

When I visited a very popular website today all it displayed was this in plain text:

string(973) "LoginusrnetherlandPasswordExtremely1Secret$Password!usrnetherlandExtremely1Secret$Password!oID40077417 " NULL

When I refreshed multiple times it didn't happen again, just that one time.
It looks like a part of an sql query containing a password, but it just seems so random to display this.

Any ideas if this could be a security threat, or what caused this and how it was caused?
If it means anything I'd report this instantly to the webmaster of the site for karma

[tremor77]

Could have happened as a result of server load, or a connection failure between yourself and the host. A server service may have been shut off or restarting as well, so you may have caught a brief maintenance blip... That being said, it still is a problem of a poorly formed query or form submission that shouldn't be appearing on a well designed site. Any further details about the site, like if they are using a CMS or forum software.. etc.. I might be able to get more specific.

[jObooW]

Could have happened as a result of server load, or a connection failure between yourself and the host. A server service may have been shut off or restarting as well, so you may have caught a brief maintenance blip... That being said, it still is a problem of a poorly formed query or form submission that shouldn't be appearing on a well designed site. Any further details about the site, like if they are using a CMS or forum software.. etc.. I might be able to get more specific.

I don't think it was a connection failure between me and the host, because the string isn't returning in any headers.
They are probably using their own CMS, it's a dutch news website that is part of IDG.com, which is a pretty large company.
The servers run Red Hat with Apache, that's all I know

[0xBEEF1337]

Delete.