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The power of Google hacking

In 2013, while I was teaching a Certified Ethical Hacker class, one of the chapters had a topic on Google hacking. During the class, we found some very interesting details scanned onto the internet, such as Australian passports, drivers licenses, birth certificates, and many other confidential data. I published the leak in my blog after the content was removed from the semi-government-owned website. Of course, all of the images have been blurred by me to protect the victims, and this post has reached out more than 20,000 clicks within a week, had many retweets, and this was published in many newspapers.

The following is a nice proof of a concept of why we should be very careful when we share our ID. Let's cover ...