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I just found a security breach that can leak thousands of emails on a website!! (furries.club)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I just found a security breach that can leak thousands of emails on a website!!

Today, I snooped around on a website I won't mention the name of for privacy reasons, and they assign your account an user ID when you register.

Well, with a very simple trick in the console I managed to get everyone else's email and account info (for example checking if they have a paid plan or not) by just lowering the user id, with no rate-limit on the endpoint!

So a bad actor could send targetted phishing emails to people by telling them there is a problem with their payment!

It's funny because on their homepage, they state they use "Military grade encryption" (whatever that means!), and their privacy policy says "We encrypt the transmission of that information" (does that just mean they do it over https?)

So, moral of the story, don't trust companies with your personal info!

I contacted the site, we'll see if they fix it.

@privacy@lemmy.ml @privacy@lemmy.world @soatok

#cybersecurity #privacy #web #hacking

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[–] [S] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

@CodenameDarlen It's because I post on mastodon : My instance is furries.club (check my username) and that's a Mastodon instance that works with hashtags to find posts. Instead of writing the same post multiple times, I use instead the 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 to write the post only once with hashtags and by tagging the Lemmy community so that it also gets posted there, and people who comment in one platform will also have their comment show up on the other platform.

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