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This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for. Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get
by stefan_kendall 13y ago
This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for.
Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get your phone number, email address, facebook profile, social security number, or whatever they want if they're determined enough.
Even then, I'm not sure what information this database really provides that could be used to gain some fraudulent or exploitive benefit.
- pa5tabear 13y agoCan you really quickly get a social security number?
- thirsteh 13y ago"I'm glad to let you know that you qualify for X healthcare coverage. Can I just have your social security number and we'll send over the confirmation documents?" Yes, people fall for this kind of stuff all the time.
- X4 13y agoehrm in sweden, yes.. those people are so mad that they allow a reverse search!!! I made payment gateways for companies there and was surprised by that. What's really sad is that, if all those phone numbers were already public, I guess nobody would have cared to create something like SnapChat in the first place..
- kvb 13y agoIn many cases it's much easier than you'd expect. See e.g. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/ http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/ (TL;DR: "we show that it is possible to predict individual SSNs simply from publicly available data").