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IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Friday January 19, 2024. 07:44 AM , from TheRegister
Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime
A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.…
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