If you’re storing some personal information like Debit/Credit card numbers or Passwords etc, on different sites for running you’re E-business. Do you think that cookies are stored and maintain such information on the server-side and hackers can''t steal user''s information from these cookies easily? Do you agree with the above statement? Please give short comments in favor of or against the statement.

No, hackers can steal information from cookies. This many times depend on the type of cookies.

Cookies, by general definition, are programs embedded onto browsers which collect non-invasive information about our activities such so that it can adapt to our needs.

The type of information that a cookie collects depends on what type of cookie it is.

Session Cookies: These types of cookies only collect information about the movement of the user on the website such as pages visited, products that were examined (for e-commerce websites) and products/services that the user put in their cart.

These type of cookies are temporary and are deleted as soon as the browser is shut down.

Persistent Cookies:

These do the same thing that the Session cookies do only that they are more permanent and are stored in a text file even after the browser and the computer has been shut down.

It is these types of cookies that pose a threat. These type of cookies many store codes and passwords and log-in details which may be exploited by a hacker.

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