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Gumtree classifieds site leaked personal info via the F12 key

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports:

British classifieds site Gumtree.com suffered a data leak after a security researcher revealed that he could access sensitive personally identifiable data of advertisers simply by pressing F12 on the keyboard.

When pressing the F12 key in a web browser, the application will open the developer tools console, which allows you to view a website’s source code, monitor network requests, and view error messages produced by the website.

Read more at BleepingComputer.


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