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This would be bad; we've already had a few cases on HN where someone noticed that they could increment the customer number in a URL or similar, resulting in pol
by pjc50 3mo ago
This would be bad; we've already had a few cases on HN where someone noticed that they could increment the customer number in a URL or similar, resulting in police action.
- OliverGuy 3mo agoGot a source for that?
- voxic11 3mo agoNot from the US but https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-inform... This news segment goes into more detail about how he downloaded the documents (by incrementing the document id in the url) https://x.com/Brett_CBC/status/984751373525901313 https://x.com/Brett_CBC/status/984751373525901313
- bornfreddy 3mo agoWow, just wow. How about charging the website builders for negligence, for failing to protect sensitive data? Simply incredible.
- jfyi 3mo agoIDOR is a well known security issue that can result in exactly the scenario described (someone incrementing a counter in a url) and has on many occasions in different jurisdictions caused legal issues for the person doing it. Unless you are specifically asking for a hn reference, which I don't understand the relevance but I'm sure they exist.