The search engine Ask.com leaked its server log files, displaying all of its users’ aearch queries to the public. For a few hours today, you searched for a keyword on Ask.com, the public could see what you searched for.
you could see the server status, and the log file. A refresh of the page would reveal the latest search queries at the search engine.
Notice that the ask.com URL is NOT HTTPs. In contrast, Google for several years has been secure, not even allowing site owners to see search queries.
One of the search queries I saw on the log file was “blue monster speakers sams club”.
This would be a way that someone could scrape the file and get a list of keywords the publicity is using. As you might recall, years ago there was a similar day at breach at AOL that also allowed the public to see search query data.
HT goes out to Paul, @fighto on Twitter, for alerting me to this.