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Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins
As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are
Ayrey is best known as the creator of the popular open source project TruffleHog, which helps watch for data leaks should the bad guys gain identity login tools (i.e., API keys, passwords, and tokens). To test the flaw he found, Ayrey bought one failed startup’s domain and from it was able to log in to ChatGPT, Slack, Notion, Zoom, and an HR system containing Social Security numbers. Shuttering a company is actually a complicated process done during what could be an emotionally painful time — involving many items, from disposing of employee computers, to closing bank accounts, to paying taxes.
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