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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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Shame on their IT security? 2003-09-30
Anonymous
I blame the CIO, who clearly is an idiot. Does he even have an IT security staff?

More than likely, the CIO's idea of IT security is a web designer who set up a web server and believed that because the transaction was handled via SSL, everything was encrypted.

Besides this, how often is IT se...

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