Hello folks,
In my article posting yesterday, it occurred to me that I didn’t cover something that made the cyberscoop news in a good way. Cyberscoop covers government stuff as well as good news like the article entitled WeLeakInfo, a search engine for breached personal data, shut down and thats a good thing. I’ve never heard of this site, but anything to allow people to search for things that could be harmful like breach info is a good thing.
U.S. authorities have shuttered a website claiming users could scour more than 12 billion records compiled from some 10,000 data breaches to purchase usernames,
Thats a lot of info, and I could see why this web site was shut down. If you were looking to see if your info was out, thats one thing, but to look to see about others so you can use it and use the info to take over other accounts isn’t OK and should not be allowed.
I’m passing this along in the good news category, let me know your thoughts. Should search engines up for people to search whatever you want to, even if that means that people can lose their accounts to others?
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