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You have got to be fuck*ng kidding me, Venturebeat: "VentureBeat reporters deduced that all are Citibank-issued MasterCard numbers. We’re reluctant to publish
by dsplittgerber 16y ago
You have got to be fuck*ng kidding me, Venturebeat:
"VentureBeat reporters deduced that all are Citibank-issued MasterCard numbers. We’re reluctant to publish further details yet." http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/23/blippy-credit-card-citibank/ http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/23/blippy-credit-card-citiban...
Yet they're showing a screenshot with the exact Google search term to get all the data.
- gojomo 16y agoThat's not too unreasonable of an approach for an online news source: avoid republishing info that could be wrong, but allow readers to observe the same primary sources, unless/until Blippy and Google change things.
- dsplittgerber 16y agoWell, they just could have refrained from publishing the exact "hack" at all. Which would have been the right thing to do, making it at least a little bit harder for people to find out which CC #s exactly are compromised. They could have stuck with reporting about it, not sharing in spreading it all over the internet.