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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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CIO = Buffoon 2003-09-26
Anonymous
From its press release, Dealerskins shows itself culturally and technically incompetent. It will never be able to secure this database.

It has been my experience that CTO's and CIO's may have MBA's, but usually have no understanding of the technology they are supposed to be managing. That is beyo...

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