A method of obtaining someone's personal credit information that involves digging through discarded mail from trash containers.
Dumpster diving involves going through your trash bins and garbage to retrieve copies of your checks, credit card or bank statements, or other sensitive records that you have not properly disposed of, e.g. by shredding. Back to Jump
searching for access codes or other sensitive information in the trash
Dumpster Diving is a type of eavesdropping that involves accessing discarded trash to obtain passwords and other data.
When someone goes through the garbage in order to obtain personal information to be used in identity theft.
looking through trash for access codes or other sensitive information
Spying the old-fashioned way: rummaging through garbage or recycling cans for information such as invoices, passwords, and account numbers.
Obtaining useful information, such as passwords and directories by searching through trash.
An activity which involves rummaging around in other people's trash to find something useful.
Dumpster diving is another method identity thieves use to obtain your personal information. They go through garbage bins, looking for people’s personal information. That’s why it’s very important to always shred your important documents before throwing them out.
(Context: computer security) The practice in which hackers gain information about a target by digging through the target's trash. Sometimes yields operations manuals and/or passwords. Often yields credit card numbers.
Dumpster Diving is the searching of someone else's trash in an attempt to obtain valuable information such as passwords, social security numbers, bank account numbers, etc.
Dumpster diving, also called Binning, D-Mart, Dumpstering, Garbing, Garbage picking, Garbage gleaning, Skip-raiding, Skipping, or Trashing, is a North American term to describe the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find usable items that have been discarded for being unusable by their owners, such as food, furniture, or clothes. The term originates from the fanciful image of someone leaping into large trash bins, the best-known of which are produced under the name "Dumpster". In practice, dumpster “diving†is more like fishing since most dumpsters can be accessed without diving in.
