AutoFill from Chrome and Safari can provide credit card information to hackers

A rather worrying piece of information appeared on Twitter the other day, according to which the autofill in Chrome and Safari can provide hackers with highly sensitive information such as the name, email address, postal address, phone number and credit/debit card details of users who use this option.

What is Autofilm?  - The option that the browser stores your personal data and credit card, to be filled in automatically in the specific fields when we need to make a payment or a bank transfer.

One option that spares us to introduce each personal information on sites, but as shown in an article in the Guardian, is a very dangerous option.
Renowned hacker Viljami KuosmanenShows that through certain exploits placed on dubious websites, credit card data can be entered automatically in invisible fields. So without realizing it, someone malicious user sends confidential information.
In a Google release, a company representative announced that Google is currently working on resolving this problem in the Chrome Web browser.

A simple solution would be not to use this option and disable AutoFill in Safari and in Google Chrome.

Disable AutoFill for Credit Card in Safari - macOS

Safari > Preferences…> In the tab AutoFill uncheck the option "Credit Card".

Disable AutoFill in Google Chrome

In Google Chrome, just go to: Chrome: //settings/  then go to "Settings”, And under Passwords and forms ”uncheck the optionEnable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click".

Browser Mozilla Firefox does not store by default sensitive data.

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