14 DAY TRIAL // Ever thought that a popular service hosted by a huge company, such as Google, can turn into one of the most dangerous websites on the web, for hundreds of people? Maybe not, but today, it has been proved that such a thing can happen in a matter of seconds and can have some serious consequences for all the ones involved in it. The folks at KOAA.com today reported that a new Blogger account, hosting hundreds of stolen credit card accounts, has been spotted on the web and what's worse is that all the details could be accessed by anyone who has an Internet connection.
"We found a list of hundreds of credit card numbers and personal information on a website hosted by Google. We contacted Google and within 30-minutes the web log, called a blog, was down. We've also contacted local and federal authorities, and a few people in Colorado Springs who's information was on the site", it was mentioned in the KOAA.com article.
As you can see in the adjacent picture and provided by security company Trend Micro, the blog included all the details needed to conduct an illegal web operation. And even if the Blogger account got shut down, don't be too amazed in case you discover other similar pages.
And the folks at Trend Micro proved us that numerous other websites could be at least as dangerous as today's example. "Soon after seeing this, I did some digging, and discovered a couple of other pages which were also hosting pages that simply contained (suspected) stolen credit & debit card numbers, names, addresses, ZIP codes, and CVV codes", Paul Ferguson of Trend Micro wrote in a blog post published today.
What I find really applaudable is Google's instant reaction that managed to shut down the page in approximately 30 minutes, as the first source mentioned above stated. So, next time you discover such pages, just hurry up and contact the authorities or the parent company hosting them.