Dark Side of Google: Payment card details of 19,000 Brits found in cache
Google’s web cache was recently caught red-handed, when payment card details of 19,000 UK based persons were discovered to be hosted by the world’s first and largest search engine. The stored data also included names, addresses, card numbers and expiry dates for Visa, MasterCard and American Express British holders. All anyone needed to do to discover the data was run the right search query.
The Register reported more on how the data got into Google’s cache:
The data was originally posted to a website server located in Vietnam, presumably in error by data thieves who wanted to sell it to other scammers. Even after the site was shuttered in February, the information continued to live on in Google’s web history cache until company employees finally purged it.
Luckily for part of those affected, many of the cards posted online had already been canceled, according to bank industry sources quoted by the Register. What about the others? Will they at least be notified?
