Google caches payment card details for 19,000 Brits More evidence of Google's success in organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible: Payment card details for 19,000 Brits were recently found hosted in the search engine's web cache. The details included the names, addresses, card numbers and expiry dates for UK-based holders of Visa, MasterCard and …
I don't think so. "Info" doesn't want anything.
Rather, "Insecure information" is available to whoever wants it.
Don't blame the database ... blame the folks making it available all and sundry.
That's not Google, BTW ... that's the idiots allowing Google to index them ...
Not all of them? I'd have thought, from a banks point of view that the most intelligent thing to do, would be to automatically block cards that get posted to the net like that, and contact the customer to inform them that they might be a victim of fraud.
It'd save them money, because they wouldn't be refunding fraud victims all the time.
The way to check if your credit card details are affected is to type your credit card number into Google and do a search. To be extra thorough, also do this search on Yahoo, MSN, etc.
That'll do it.
Anyone without the time or skills to do this, please post your credit card numbers here and I will search for you.
Are the Faily Fail limited for pictures? Looks like finger drive man is making a cameo in this story.
Does having a downsized digit create a penchant for browsing cached financials. I think this is conclusive evidence. New headline:
Finnish Finger Freak Steals Your Money
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/17/usb_finger_bloke/
No useless, incompetent, money-grabbing, exploitative corp or gov should be allowed anywhere anyone's data. Only when they prove it won't be published to the world within 10 minutes of aquiring it will I submit it.
Someone had better the fired, and by fired I mean from a cannon, into the Sun!
Really. Since the people in question have been stupid enough to post their *real* visa number rather than a one usage number like all serious banks (and certainly all in this country) provide, sometimes as a free service.
And in case the said numbers haven't been used for many weird usages already, I find it cool that Google help those morons to *really* understand they should have a clue, by pushing the numbers to world + dog.
That way, they'll learn.
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