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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
The question in my mind is; why would anyone who just wanted to make a service appointmnet spend hours looking for a security breach and then downloading 1000 credit applications? IF, they had a real job? Obviously they had A LOT of time on their hands. This hardly sounds quite as innocent or hel...

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