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40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web

Posted by kdawson on from the big-fat-target dept.

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."

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  1. ur doin it wrong by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  2. Date and place of birth? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    And what is your date and place of birth?

    = = = =

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

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  3. Re:Hmm... Who's that at the door at this hour? by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Look up our own information, huh? by meuhlavache · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!