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Ask HN: Why is my post shadowbanned?
I want to request help from a security researcher, but my post was shadowbanned. Can someone help me?
- kristianp 2y agoPosts from new accounts are dead until someone vouches for them. You can contribute to a discussion and gain points to gain access to submit stories.
- throwaway4disc 2y agothanks. I will do that.
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- skilled 2y agoWhat steps have you taken to address the issue you mentioned in your original post? Have you called Tata Capital and asked to speak with someone at the IT department? Tell them to add a disallow statement to robots.txt and those pages should get deindexed quickly. My understanding of what happened here is that an external service (such as this one[0]), picked up the "tclzip.tatacapital.com" domain name, and through that the Google crawler also found it. At the time it found it, the "tclzip.tatacapital.com" domain had no folder restrictions, so Google's crawler was able to travel through all the directories and see the files that were in them. This appears to have been happening up until 12 months ago. [0]: https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl/scans/2023-11-09/tatacapital.com https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl/scans/2023-11-09/tatacapital....
- throwaway4disc 2y agoI have contacted the CISO and CEO of the company - but they have been non responsive. I have also contacted CERT (India's department for Cyber Security) - they have also been non responsive. This is my last try to get this fixed - I don't like the fact that multi million dollar companies are so lax in security because they don't bear the consequence of these leaks, unlike customers like us.
- fragmede 2y agoEmail their CISO gulzar.abraham@tatacapital.com and rajesh.pillai@tatacapital.com
- throwaway4disc 2y ago[dead]
- fragmede 2y agoI can't respond directly to your comment. What date did you email them?
- throwaway4disc 2y ago[dead]
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- throwaway4disc 2y ago[dead]
- brudgers 2y agoThough your troubles are unfortunate, the post is inconsistent with the reasons I read HN. So it was probably auto-killed. But you can ask the moderators hn@ycombinator.com Good luck.