'Good guys' show just how easy it is to steal ID
Posted by Clark Venable on 3/7/2005
'Good guys' show just how easy it is to steal ID:
" Teams of hackers surfed the Web at Seattle University yesterday, harvesting Social Security and credit card numbers like a farmer cutting wheat. In less than an hour, they found millions of names, birth dates and numbers -- cyberburglar tools for the crime of identity theft -- using just one, familiar Internet search engine: Google. "
The problem is not Google. The problem is the sites that allowed these documents to be indexed. I wonder how successful we would be finding protected health information?
[Via HIPAA Blog]
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