PAN Discovery Browser

Protect your browser from pages containing cardholder data.

PAN Discovery Browser - Protect Your Browser from Cardholder Data

PAN Discovery Browser is a Chrome extension that allows you to prevent payment card numbers from being displayed. It provides a notification for pages potentially containing cardholder data. It helps prevent accidental forwarding of emails with card numbers and enables identification, reporting, and incident response for unexpected credit or debit card numbers.

Extension stats

By: Sure QC
Users: 18
Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2019-02-22)
Creation date: 2019-02-17
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • notifications
Size: 35.39K

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension allows you to prevent payment card numbers from being displayed and to get a notification that the page potentially contains such information. All detection is done in-browser and no information is sent to any other location.

It's useful for preventing accidental forwarding of emails with card numbers in online email systems. It can allow the identification, reorting and instigation of Incident Response where unexpected credit card or debit card numbers are located. See https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ for details of the PCI DSS standard.

Extension safety

Risk impact

PAN Discovery Browser requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

PAN Discovery Browser may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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