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November 2, 2017

Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

This post was originally published on this siteEquifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person’s Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, and began restoring the site eight days later saying it had added unspecified “security enhancements.” The Work Number, Equifax’s salary and employment history portal. At issue is a service provided by Equifax’s TALX division called The Work Number. The service is designed […]
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March 20, 2024

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

This post was originally published on this siteIt’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. Responding to a reader inquiry concerning the trustworthiness of a site called TruePeopleSearch[.]net, KrebsOnSecurity began poking around. The site offers to sell a report containing photos, […]
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