Question

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.

Answer 1

cookies are stored on client side.

A hacker would need access to your computer, either by physically reading the cookie data or by means of cross-site scripting.

Other than that, cookies should not contain passwords or credit card numbers, just things like preferences or session identifiers.