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Billions of Cookies Up For Grabs As Experts Warn Over Session Security
samedi 31 mai 2025, 02:52 , par Slashdot
![]() The vast majority of stolen cookies (90.25 percent) contain ID data, used to uniquely identify users and deliver targeted ads. They can also contain data such as names, home and email addresses, locations, passwords, phone numbers, and genders, although these data points are only present in around 0.5 percent of all stolen cookies. The risk of ruinous personal data exposure as a result of cookie theft is therefore pretty slim. Aside from ID cookies, the other statistically significant type of data that these can contain are details of users' sessions. Over 1.2 billion of these are still up for grabs (roughly 6 percent of the total), and these are generally seen as more of a concern. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0020249/billions-of-cookies-up-for-grabs-as-experts-warn-over...
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