About a year or so back, I began getting spam from all sorts of British sup ermarkets telling me to claim my prize. For the first time in a while I clicked the link to Co-Op just to see what it was all about and found it was a tracker from cloudflare. A retail servi ce agency from San Francisco:
CloudFlare experienced a security breach in 2012 that allowed the hijacking of CloudFlare CEO account which allowed access to CloudFlare customer acco unts.[24]
From September 2016 through February 2017, a major CloudFlare bug (nickname d Cloudbleed) leaked sensitive data?including passwords and authent ication tokens from customer websites, by sending extra data in response to web requests.[25] The leaks resulted from a buffer overflow, which occurre d according to analysis by CloudFlare, on approximately 1 in every 3,300,00
0 HTTP requests.All this time I had been dumb enough to assume that a syndicate of supermar kets had been sharing my buying habits among themselves.
It turns out I was signed up with a a talktalk-like secure web blanket that nobody had told me about. What do you suppose is pinging one in every thre e point three million requests for my information?
As an aside; since the NSA is hell bent on finding out what brand of toilet paper I wipe my arse with, what is Hillary Clinton going to do with the da ta now?