All of this took less than two minutes. Is it illegal to search for inurl:userpwd.txt ? No. Google is a public search engine. You are simply using a search operator.
Google offers advanced search operators—special commands that refine search results. The inurl: operator tells Google to show only pages where the specified term appears inside the URL itself. Inurl Userpwd.txt
The attacker now has and FTP credentials . They can download the entire customer database, deface the website, install ransomware, or pivot to internal servers. All of this took less than two minutes
This is not a hypothetical query. It works today. What exactly is userpwd.txt ? In the early days of the web, during the rise of PHP, ASP, and Perl CGI scripts, developers often needed a quick way to store authentication credentials for testing purposes. A common (and incredibly lazy) practice was to create a plain-text file named userpwd.txt or passwd.txt in a web-accessible directory. Google is a public search engine