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    Registered User TheLow1's Avatar
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    I was searching a website today looking for a page I thought I remembered being at before. While looking for the page I came accross a *.MDB I know there are credit cards in there, I won't do anything with it but how do I tell the website owners without them coming after me? Is there an easy way or should I turn and run, taking the blue pill and returning to reality?

    Mods if this is too close to the gray area on hacking please delete.

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    Attrition.org would probably be willing to tell them.

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    Notify them from a public computer . .

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    Actually you really should tell them.

    Did you download it? Cause if you did, the information is already in their web logs.

    If you sent an email from a hotmail account, or from another computer, they could not tell who you were.

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    BTW:

    I would NOT try to threaten them, just tell the webmaster very politely that they have a security hole and that you could access the mdb. Recommend that they patch it.

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    I tried to contact the web master but it appears he may be out of business. His website has broken links to another site. I don't want anything other than to protect these card numbers. I mean I almost bought something from these people before I noticed the DB.

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    Try doing a <a href="http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois" target="_blank">whois</a> search for the website, you should get a telephone number so you can talk to a human being.

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