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Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#51
post #47

I interviewed for a hedge fund once where my job interview was to write a program that exploited a security flaw like this to make a real time model of what people were paying for diamonds.

Did you get the job?

No. It was a week long, paid interview. After a couple of days I decided not to come back. Mainly because the main project seemed illegal (which I'll admit held some criminal mastermind allure) and I had another job lined up in Japan. In retrospect, I wish I would have done it as the job in Japan was terrible and I've not come across a similar opportunity since.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#52
post #38

Heh, Power4Home System ordered by "I.hate.niggers@microsoft.com" ... https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=504d78866YCRFEF...

Why is this racist juvenility the top rated comment in this thread?

I don't think it's funny because it's racist, I think it's funny because it reveals what kind of embarrassing data a security hole like this brings out.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#53
Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank.

ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsibility for maintaining the security of personal information that is posted online. At no time is customer payment information disclosed.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#54
post #27

What exactly is Clickbank? It looks like a platform to help people resell their knowledge?

That is what the current marketing sells it as. Basically it is mainly a platform for leads based affiliate marketing with some sales stuff as well. So stuff like generate a credit card lead for $50/$100 down to get an email address for some mailing list for a $1.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#56

Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank. ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsi…

Thanks, Matt... But it's pretty evident from your customer support tickets that your customers were alerting you to this issue (and their privacy concerns) since at least 2011... But you've clearly done nothing to fix it since then.

It's hard to believe you take customer privacy very seriously when you've made evidence to the contrary so easily searchable in Google.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#57

Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank. ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsi…

How was customer payment information NOT disclosed?! It is on Google!! The URLs should be protected by authentication! It should be impossible for Google or anyone else to access it without a login. It does not matter that some customers shared it on social sites. Saying there is no problem if the social sharing doesn't occur is security through obscurity.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#58
post #35

Clickbank is a joke! I remember year ago you could put in Google product name and "thank you" and you would find thank you page with direct download link. EDIT: Someone even made CB product to protect thank you page: Fix My Thank You Page http://fixmythankyoupage.com/ only $97 LOL!

I guess Google really started taking advantage of "today's digital internet"

> Adding "no follow" tags to your Robots.txt file is a smart step but it's simply not enough on today's digital internet.

Re: Clickbank order details in plain view

#60

Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank. ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsi…

How was customer payment information NOT disclosed?! It is on Google!! The URLs should be protected by authentication! It should be impossible for Google or anyone else to access it without a login. It does not matter that some customers shared it on social sites. Saying there is no problem if the social sharing doesn't occur is security through obscurity.

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