A few months ago, I was using an online e-commerce site, and discovered that the site was exposing the name, address and credit card details of previous customers. All you had to do was hit submit with the form left blank. I immediately found a phone number for the company, and told them.
Today, I'd just go to another site and not tell anybody. The possible legal consequences if they decided to sue me mean that it just wouldn't be worth the risk of doing the right thing.
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Date: 2001-10-02 07:32 am (UTC)A few months ago, I was using an online e-commerce site, and discovered that the site was exposing the name, address and credit card details of previous customers. All you had to do was hit submit with the form left blank. I immediately found a phone number for the company, and told them.
Today, I'd just go to another site and not tell anybody. The possible legal consequences if they decided to sue me mean that it just wouldn't be worth the risk of doing the right thing.