Google your personal data: is your credit card number online?
Posted on October 2, 2007 in Online Tools by DM
Here’s a great post on basic personal web security from “blogologist” Alister Cameron. Cameron mentions that he recently found a text document online while doing a Google search that included credit card numbers, website log-in usernames and passwords, and other personal data that had obvioulsy been “hacked” and then posted online. He then gives some initial ways to go and test whether your data was among that which was published. Mine wasn’t, but I did take his suggestions and “googled” my credit card number and my usual e-commerce passwords.
Hat tip to Leah Maclean, whose Working Solo blog is an excellent resource for those working from home, especially women “solopreneurs” who are her core customer group.
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NEVER google for your personal details, or indeed enter them into any webform that is not emplying encryption.
If you do this, you are sending your personal info through many many servers and switches on the internet in plain text.
They WILL get stored for a long time…
YIKES - really?? Still - how is that info connected to anything? Aren’t you just typing in a string of numbers? Thanks for the tip - wish I could take my “Google” back -