40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web

An anonymous reader writes "Highly sensitive financial information, including credit card details, bank account numbers, telephone numbers, and even PINs are available to the highest bidder. The information being traded on the Web has been intercepted by a British company and collated into a single database for the first time. The Lucid Intelligence database contains the records of 40 million people worldwide, mostly Americans; four million are Britons. Security experts described the database as the largest of its kind in the world. The database is in the hands of Colin Holder, a retired senior Metropolitan police officer who served on the fraud squad. He has collected the information over the past four years. His sources include law enforcement from around the world, such as British police and the FBI, anti-phishing and hacking campaigners, and members of the public. Mr. Holder said he has invested £160,000 in the venture so far. He plans to offset the cost by charging members of the public for access to his database to check whether their data security has been breached."

Comments

one, please

[tverbeek]

I'll take one. I've been meaning to get a life.

Look up our own information, huh?

[CorporateSuit]

Hello. My name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have some info for me.
Ok Mr. Burns, what's your first name?
I... don't know....

Re:Look up our own information, huh?

[meuhlavache]

Welcome into our huge database!

To check if you are on our database please fill some informations:

Type your name/surname: *tip tip tip tip*
Type your credit card number: *tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip*
Type your phone number: *tip tip tip*
Type your social security number: *tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip*
[...]
Press Ok right now.

... Loading...

Sorry, you were not on our database... Fixed that!

Re:Where does a cop get £160,000?

[russotto]

He's got backers, I think. Al Queda is a possibility, but I suspect it's actually SPECTRE.

ur doin it wrong

[interkin3tic]

I have put together a database of upskirt photos collected from the internet. For a small fee and a reference upskirt picture you can peruse my collection and find out if you were a victim.

fixed that for you

Re:Where does a cop get £160,000?

[Beardo the Bearded]

It's easy to access. All you have to do is email him your name and credit card info and ... ... wait a minute.

Hmm... Who's that at the door at this hour?

[Zantetsuken]

Well I'll be, its Scotland Yard and a squad of SAS coming for tea and biscuts! What? They say they're not visiting for tea and biscuts?

Re:Hmm... Who's that at the door at this hour?

[commodoresloat]

They're actually here to do two things -- kick ass and have tea and biscuits. As it happens, however, they're all out of tea and biscuits.

Date and place of birth?

[Ungrounded Lightning]

My name? It's ... Barak Obama.......

And what is your date and place of birth?

= = = =

(Moderators: Google "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories".)

Here's how to stay safe

[butabozuhi]

Go to Google (or Yahoo or Bing) and type in your full social security number. Hit ENTER. If you find your number online, you're a victim of identity theft! If you don't find your number online...just wait a few days as you just sent it clear-text for the whole world to see. Yeeeeehah!

I too ...

[PPH]

... have a database which, for a small fee, I will be happy to verify that your records are not contained therein.

I think we've just discovered the "4) ?????" step.

Re:Where does a cop get £160,000?

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

now he is simply a slimy scammer trading in stolen goods. The man is a disgrace.

Or possibly an MP.

Re:creek walk

[Anonymous Coward]

What? Pat Buchanan? WTF is Pat Buchanan gonna do? Show off his liver spots?