[elcritch]

‘’’In a brightly lit but still somehow nefarious meeting room two devs discuss their latest findings: Dev1: “These users searching for ‘transfer bank savings’ also have a 15% chance of pasting these long invalid numbers into the calculator. Look at all of them.” Dev2: “Odd those look like bank accounts numbers...” Dev3: “I think we may have an early retirement opportunity...” ‘’’

[dfox]

You raise valid issue, but that issue has nothing to do with the telemetry itself, but with the brokeness of US banking system. Essentially everywhere else the bank account number is simply an public address that you can use to send money there and nothing else.