Unmasking SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking, Part 4, Unmasking Formatted and Unformatted Text


 

This is part of a series on Dynamic Data Masking by Ben Johnson. For the rest of the series, click here

Continuing from the previous entry in this series on security concerns with using Dynamic Data Masking, in this blog I want to close out that discussion showing how you can unmask different sort of data that has been dynamically masked, even if you don’t have access to unmasked data.

Clearly this is NOT a suggestion for how you might break the text but is far more of an exercise to show you how a bad actor may attempt to