In today's world, any information can be shared online quickly and more effectively with the birth of "the on-spot apps" such as pastebin.com. However, this turns out to be one of the major drawbacks when developers store the source code, crypto keys, and other confidential information of the app, and leave it unattended; this online information serves attackers a list of abundant information to formulate more focused attacks.

The archive forums also reveal the logs of a particular website or the past hacking incidents, if it was previously hacked. Pastebin offers this information. The following screenshot provides the list of confidential information about a target: