[Post on Bitcrack's blog] This is a responsible disclosure write-up about a series of vulnerabilities that lead to information disclosure, database dump, and account takeover, among others.

Passive reconnaissance plays an important role in the approach of a target. In comparison to active reconnaissance, passive reconnaissance is the silent, stealthy one, where the attacker doesn't interact with the target. Instead, they obtain target information based on external, third-party sources. Such a source is search engines. In the