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ask.com Data Breach (2017)

ask.com

lowVERIS
Disclosed

April 4, 2017

3279 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Human Error

Industry

Technology

Description

search engine Ask.com was plagued by a technical issue that resulted in the search queries of its users being publicly viewable online for anyone to see. The log of user actions was available on the Ask.com server status page, which displayed a rolling log of every request sent to the site—including individual search queries.