Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare

itwbennett writes "Gennette Cordova knows first-hand how impossible it is to erase yourself from the Internet. The 21-year-old college student was the hapless recipient of a photo of a Congressman Anthony Weiner bulging in his boxers. Ms. Cordova then 'watched in sheer disbelief as my name, age, location, links to any social networking site I've ever used, my old phone numbers and pictures have been passed along from stranger to stranger.' She then tried to remove her personal information from the web, one social network at a time. But the fact is, 'until a site's Webmaster removes the offending content, it will remain accessible via search engines like Google,' says blogger Dan Tynan."

Comments

Re:Alleged picture

[ElectricTurtle]

You're assuming that whenever somebody hacks something the first thing they do is change the access credentials. However, doing that is actually more likely to clue in the person being hacked about the compromise. If you don't change the credentials you can sit on the access for a length of time until you've done all you want with them.

However in this specific case I agree it probably wasn't a real hack. For chrissake he won't even deny the picture was of himself.