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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

August 15, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, atlas data privacy corp., Data Breaches, FBI, haveibeenpwned.com, infragard, instant checkmate, jerico pictures, national criminal data llc, national public data breach, peopleconnect, recordscheck.net, sal verini, salvatore verini, shadowglade llc, sxul, The Coming Storm, trinity entertainment, troy hunt, truthfinder, twisted history llc, usdod, vx-underground

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:38:36 +0000

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida.

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

March 20, 2024 0 Comments 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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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

March 8, 2024 0 Comments affiliate.ru, american russian media inc., arrestfacts.com, atlas data privacy corp., bitseller expert ltd, bizstanding.com, Breadcrumbs, centeda.com, channel one, clubset.com, consumer reporting agencies, daniel's law, dating factory, difive.com, dmitry lybarsky, epop@comby.com, fact magazine, fair credit reporting act, gary nard, gary norden, gary@barksy.com, gary1@eprofit.com, homeflock.com, homemetry.com, igor lybarsky, instantcheckmate.com, kworld.com, newenglandfacts.com, ntv, persontrust.com, projectlab.com, pub360.com, publicreports.com, radaris.com, radaris.ru, rehold.com, rosconcert.com, trustoria.com, truthfinder, u.s. department of justice, u.s. federal communications commission, u.s. federal trade commission, unipoint technology inc., virtory.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:02:48 +0000

If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But how much do we know about Radaris? Publicly available data indicates that in addition to running a dizzying array of people-search websites, the co-founders of Radaris operate multiple Russian-language dating services and affiliate programs. It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. government.