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I've noticed recently there has been at least two incidents of users posting a lot of detailed sensitive information, from the guy the edited a post to replace it with his CV (which I would say is an interesting way of getting your name known) to the ServerFault user that posted a question with working login credentials to his actual production server.

What should be the procedure in this case?

• Edit it out, if you have enough rep
• Flag for moderator attention with "other" flag, explaining the contents?
• As the revision history may need to be destroyed, drop into a chat room with a community co-ordinator and ping them to alert them of the situation?
• Mention it in the parent's site chat room to draw attention to it?
• Email [email protected] with a link to the question and explain the issue?
• All of the above?

I've observed several incidents where users inadvertently posted detailed, sensitive information. For example, a Server Fault user who posted a question with working login credentials to his actual production server, or the Stack Overflow user who posted actual medical records as example data for his question.

What should be the procedure for handling such cases?

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I've noticed recently there has been at least two incidents of users posting a lot of detailed sensitive information, from the guy the edited a post to replace it with his CV (which I would say is an interesting way of getting your name known) to the ServerFault user that posted a question with working login credentials to his actual production server.

What should be the procedure in this case?

• Edit it out, if you have enough rep
• Flag for moderator attention with "other" flag, explaining the contents?
• As the revision history may need to be destroyed, drop into a chat room with a community co-ordinator and ping them to alert them of the situation?
• Mention it in the parent's site chat room to draw attention to it?
• Email [email protected] with a link to the question and explain the issue?
• All of the above?

I've noticed recently there has been at least two incidents of users posting a lot of detailed sensitive information, from the guy the edited a post to replace it with his CV (which I would say is an interesting way of getting your name known) to the ServerFault user that posted a question with working login credentials to his actual production server.

What should be the procedure in this case?

• Edit it out, if you have enough rep
• Flag for moderator attention with "other" flag, explaining the contents?
• As the revision history may need to be destroyed, drop into a chat room with a community co-ordinator and ping them to alert them of the situation?
• Mention it in the parent's site chat room to draw attention to it?
• Email [email protected] with a link to the question and explain the issue?
• All of the above?