HACKER Q&A
📣 throwaway4disc

Why is my post shadowbanned?


I want to request help from a security researcher, but my post was shadowbanned. Can someone help me?


  👤 skilled Accepted Answer ✓
What steps have you taken to address the issue you mentioned in your original post? Have you called Tata Capital and asked to speak with someone at the IT department? Tell them to add a disallow statement to robots.txt and those pages should get deindexed quickly.

My understanding of what happened here is that an external service (such as this one[0]), picked up the "tclzip.tatacapital.com" domain name, and through that the Google crawler also found it. At the time it found it, the "tclzip.tatacapital.com" domain had no folder restrictions, so Google's crawler was able to travel through all the directories and see the files that were in them. This appears to have been happening up until 12 months ago.

[0]: https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl/scans/2023-11-09/tatacapital....


👤 kristianp
Posts from new accounts are dead until someone vouches for them. You can contribute to a discussion and gain points to gain access to submit stories.

👤 fragmede
Email their CISO gulzar.abraham@tatacapital.com and rajesh.pillai@tatacapital.com

👤 fragmede
I can't respond directly to your comment. What date did you email them?

👤 brudgers
Though your troubles are unfortunate, the post is inconsistent with the reasons I read HN. So it was probably auto-killed.

But you can ask the moderators hn@ycombinator.com

Good luck.