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The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

March 20, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alibaba cloud, alina clark, beenverified, Breadcrumbs, cocodoc, cocofinder, cocosign, DomainTools.com, eden cheng, fastpeoplesearch, findpeoplefast, forbes.com, h.i.g. capital, harriet chan, instant checkmate, intelius, marilyn gaskell, neighborwho, numberguru, onerep, ownerly, peopleconnect inc., peoplefinderfree, peoplelooker, peoplesmart, radaris, ross cohen, sally stevens, shenzhen duiyun technology co, Spokeo, Stephen Curry, the lifetime value co., truepeoplesearch, truthfinder, u.s. federal trade commission

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:18:26 +0000

It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. But it’s not every day you run across a US-focused people-search network based in China whose principal owners all appear to be completely fabricated identities.

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Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

November 2, 2017 admin Equifax, Equifax breach, National Mortgage News, Other, Spokeo, TALX, The Work Number, Zillow

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:04:20 +0000

Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person’s Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, and began restoring the site eight days later saying it had added unspecified “security enhancements.”