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Car shoppers' credit details exposed in bulk
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-09-25

At least 1,000 automobile shoppers who submitted online credit applications to any of 150 different automotive dealerships around the U.S. had their personal and financial details exposed on a publicly-accessible website, according to a computer security consultant who stumbled across the privacy gaffe.

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Car shoppers' credit details exposed in bulk 2003-09-25
Anonymous (3 replies)
Car shoppers' credit details exposed in bulk 2003-09-26
Anonymous
Its not hard to stumble across something like that. Even if the webserver shouldn't have been public then its still not ilegal to come across it.

Full details are never released to the public about security breaches.

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Those wascally hackers 2003-09-25
Anonymous (1 replies)
Those wascally hackers 2003-09-26
Anonymous
Shame on you, Security Focus? 2003-09-26
Anonymous (2 replies)
Shame on you, Security Focus? 2003-09-28
Anonymous
Shame on you, Security Focus? 2003-09-29
Anonymous
Car shoppers' credit details exposed in bulk 2003-09-26
Grimm (1 replies)
Shame on their IT security? 2003-09-30
Anonymous
CIO = Buffoon 2003-09-26
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