Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards 232
pnorth writes "A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers of US and UK consumers in a major worldwide breach. The data, held in Google cache, includes credit card numbers, CVVs, expiry dates, names and addresses. The credit card numbers are for accounts held with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Solo, Switch, Delta and Maestro/Cirrus. Within the address bars of the cached pages are URLs of e-commerce sites that have become victims of the breach. They include clothing, science, health, sports and photo imaging stores. The cause appears to be a known issue with the Google search engine, in which the pages of defunct web sites containing sensitive directories remain cached and available to anyone."
Re:Cashless Society (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shoot the messenger! (Score:5, Funny)
Google should take SOME blame.
I held a robots.txt poster up at my window and google streetmap still photographed it.
Re:Who are the lucky ones? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cashless Society (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not sure how many people realize that the vast majority of wealth is not in paper form, nor could it be.
Yeah, it's in the imaginations of people who buy financial instruments like stocks and bonds.
whirlpool discussion threat (Score:5, Funny)
ITNews links to a discussion threat at whirlpool.net.au which has been deleted because it is "handeled by the authorities".
And again it is a known issue of Google which reveals the deleted thread: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:uf9L_DtjAzYJ:forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1165021.html+http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm%3Ft%3D1165021&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk [209.85.229.132]
- Martin ;-)
Re:Shoot the messenger! (Score:1, Funny)
http://boingboing.net/images/googlevan.jpg
Re:Who are the lucky ones? (Score:3, Funny)
Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.