Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Discreetly Monitoring a Communications Network for Sensitive Information

A computer program product, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code embodied in the medium that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
• populating a database with sensitive information about a subscriber and obscuring information different from the sensitive information;
• providing, to a search engine, a combined search request sequence comprising a plurality of repeated search requests for the sensitive information and a plurality of intermittent search requests for the obscuring information interleaved between ones of the plurality of repeated search requests, wherein the intermittent search requests for the obscuring information disguise the sensitive information that is a subject of the repeated search requests;
• identifying, among results of the repeated search requests and the intermittent search requests received from the search engine, search results containing the sensitive information;
• and
• reporting the search results that were identified to the subscriber.

A computer system for monitoring a computer network for information, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored therein that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
• populating a database with sensitive information about a subscriber and obscuring information different from the sensitive information;
• providing, to a search engine, a combined search request sequence comprising a plurality of repeated search requests for the sensitive information and a plurality of intermittent search requests for the obscuring information interleaved between ones of the plurality of repeated search requests, wherein the intermittent search requests for the obscuring information disguise the sensitive information that is a subject of the repeated search requests;
• identifying, among results of the repeated search requests and the intermittent search requests received from the search engine, search results containing the sensitive information;
• and
• reporting the search results that were identified to the subscriber.