Google knows some of your Wordpress.com Username and Email Address
I’m not sure how/why these activation URLs were crawled by Googlebot but yes, Google still publicly shows some WordPress.com usernames and the email addresses associated with the username.
Ha! Now all hackers need is the password (no pun intended). Clearly, this is not good. But who is to blame? Google? Wordpress? Or the end-user? Quite frankly, I am not sure. But I do know that it is time to change some of those information starting with the email address associated with that account.
Also, don’t forget making your password a bit stronger/longer using uppercases, numbers and character combinations.
So, how do you get this result? Simply enter “site:en.WordPress.com “your account is now active”” or click this link.
How do you find if your username was crawled? Add your username at the end like this:
“site:WordPress.com “your account is now active” johnsmith”
I suggest you change them now. It’s better safe than sorry.
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May 27th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
dude my username is admin
May 27th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
ok dude, what’s your password?
June 1st, 2009 at 12:43 am
it’s somehow false positive. most part of blogs ends with “2009″, and when checked random 10 from different result pages, all were suspended.