A unique system and method that facilitate automatic tracking of user data
and providing on-demand site or merchant reputation information is
provided. The system and method involve monitoring user input such as by
keystrokes over a period of time and forming a long continuous string of
characters. The string of characters can be monitored for repeating
substrings or non-repeating substrings that indicate sensitive user
information such as SSN or credit card number (CCN). The substrings can
be displayed to the user in a digest form and order according to
frequency of occurrence, for example. Thus, the user can readily view
where and when their sensitive information has been entered. In addition,
the typing of certain substrings such as CCNs or other sensitive field
data can trigger a reputation service to retrieve the reputation data for
the current site or merchant to mitigate dealing with fraudulent sites or
merchants.