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even if it is test data, we must wonder, why did anyone ever build the system such that credit card numbers were visible to google? Why did someone include the
by fnid2 16y ago
even if it is test data, we must wonder, why did anyone ever build the system such that credit card numbers were visible to google? Why did someone include the credit card number in the select clause, add it to the html template, and put it on a public server that could be crawled by Google?
- axod 16y agoFrom their response, as far as I understand it, Some line items 'comments' field had credit card details included in them, which they didn't bank on.
- gte910h 16y agoHonestly looks like a credit card processor is being strange and publishing the card number in the wrong field. Only a couple people using the service had this error (not caused by them). This has been fixed long ago, just this was a cached paged caught from beta.
- there 16y agoi'm sure there wasn't a "credit card number" field that this information came from. when downloading OFX transaction data, some banks include the full credit card number in the transaction description, and some only include the last 4 digits.