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This vulnerability allows an attacker to access sensitive data such as credit cards, tax IDs, authentication credentials, etc to conduct credit card fraud, identity theft, or other crimes. Losing such data can cause severe business impact and damage to the reputation. Sensitive data deserves extra protection such as encryption at rest or in transit, as well as special precautions when exchanged with the browser.
Further Reading:
OWASP Sensitive Data Exposure
Worldβs Biggest Data Breaches
Letβs Encrypt, which provides free trusted HTTPS certificates
Node.js Crypto module
Node.js HTTPS module
/r/crypto, List of books on cryptography for further learning
Cryptography Wiki
Sensitive data exposure bounties discovered on GitHub
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