Re: Exposure of 19000 credit card numbers

[fzbrick <fzbrick () gmail com>]

You would think that google would have an algorithm to detect that remove
credit card information from their search engine.  It would take most
programmers just a hour or two to write and implement that.



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net> wrote:

> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/99250,aussie-stumbles-on-19000-exposed-credit-card-numbers.aspx
>
> ...
> A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers
>
> The discovery by a local IT industry worker was made by mistake and appears
> to be caused by a known issue with the Google search engine, in which the
> pages of defunct web sites containing sensitive directories remain cached
> and available to anyone.
>
> The cached data, viewed by iTnews, includes 22,000 credit card numbers,
> including CVVs, expiry dates, names and addresses.
>
> Up to 19,000 of these numbers could be active. Most are customers in the US
> and Britain although some are Australian.
>
> The credit card numbers are for accounts held with Visa, Mastercard,
> American Express, Solo, Switch, Delta and Maestro/Cirrus.
>
> ...
>
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