IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security

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By BeauHDJan 22, 2024, 8:25 pm149 pts
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: A security researcher in Germany has been fined $3,300 for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records. Back in June 2021, according to our pals at Heise, an contractor identified elsewhere as Hendrik H.…

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