Re: Find Credit Card Numbers and Mask only 6 digits in a logfile

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Re^2: Find Credit Card Numbers and Mask only 6 digits in a logfile by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Apr 30, 2018 at 12:05 UTC
Why are you storing credit card details in plain text in a log file? Not storing them; parsing the dump of a breach for posting on the dark web ... whoops, did I say that out loud?	[reply]
Re^2: Find Credit Card Numbers and Mask only 6 digits in a logfile by gtk (Acolyte) on Apr 30, 2018 at 10:59 UTC
It is good question, due to some debugging purpose we have disabled the encryption and currently we want to mask only 6 digits.	[reply]
Re^3: Find Credit Card Numbers and Mask only 6 digits in a logfile by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 30, 2018 at 11:07 UTC
This is terrible practice, and depending where you are a PCI compliance failure.	[reply]
Re^4: Find Credit Card Numbers and Mask only 6 digits in a logfile by gtk (Acolyte) on Apr 30, 2018 at 13:16 UTC
Please note that this is only for the testing environments for debugging purpose. In Production, numbers are fully masked.	[reply]