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

I must say :

[nukenerd]

I for one welcome our new retired senior Metropolitan police officer overlord.

Re:Where does a cop get £160,000?

[davester666]

So he's now making this info freely available on the Internet, or is it behind a paywall?

Re:good point

[maxume]

Is your pin number personal?

Re:good point

[maxume]

Personal identification number number.

Re:splitting hairs

[Anonymous Psychopath]

What, information wants to be free unless it's your information?

Re:Date and place of birth?

[sbeckstead]

My name? It's ... Barak Obama.......
And what is your date and place of birth?
August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii United States
There fixed that for you!

Re:Date and place of birth?

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Whooooosh!