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Credit scores of millions of Americans have been exposed online – Techradar
Lender used Experian’s API to allow unauthenticated users to check credit scores
The credit scores of millions of Americans were left exposed online when a lender misused an API belonging to the credit reporting agency Experian.
As first reported by Krebs on Security, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi was shopping around for student loan vendors online when he discovered that he could easily pull up his Experian credit score just by entering only a portion of the information normally required to do so.
Demirkapi was on a site that offered to check his loan eligibility…
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