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Re: Equihax

#11

Is those Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates real SS numbers?

These seem to have been leaked before [1, 2], so that's not very conclusive... [1] https://www.facebook.com/HydraHackingUnited/posts/9614975439... (November 24, 2015) [2] http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/1-50-138814262-1-0-1-0-qui-s... (June 20, 2013)

The third one in the screenshot seems to be for Bill Gates, though it's conveniently cut-off. Has that also been in a previous leak?

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#12
post #9

Is those Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates real SS numbers?

Dunno why, but just surprised that Kim K's credit score with Equifax is 643. Unrelated, sorry.

No, I actually thought the same thing, which made me think maybe this isn't real? That number seems really low, doesn't it?

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#13

Is those Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates real SS numbers?

It's only ~$14k USD for us to buy 1 mil entries. Maybe we could crowd fund it and see how real it is?

Why not buy a single entry - yourself - to verify? I don't particularly want to give these guys $14k.

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#14

This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up. Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.

This issue has existed before the hack. None of these companies give a shit about security. Maybe this will change things.

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#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These seem to have been leaked before [1, 2], so that's not very conclusive... [1] https://www.facebook.com/HydraHackingUnited/posts/9614975439... (November 24, 2015) [2] http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/1-50-138814262-1-0-1-0-qui-s... (June 20, 2013)

The third one in the screenshot seems to be for Bill Gates, though it's conveniently cut-off. Has that also been in a previous leak?

There are results showing up on the web, eg. here:

http://www.techjamaica.com/forums/showthread.php?110860-Bill...

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#16

This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up. Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.

> It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection.

In my mind, the Just thing to do would be for Equifax to offer ongoing fraud protection to all of their customers affected by this leak. (Gosh, that might be expensive!)

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#17
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dunno why, but just surprised that Kim K's credit score with Equifax is 643. Unrelated, sorry.

No, I actually thought the same thing, which made me think maybe this isn't real? That number seems really low, doesn't it?

I wouldn't be that surprised that she would miss lots of consecutive payments. Not because she didn't have the money, but because she doesn't care. 3 late payments in a row on a mortgage, credit card, etc, drags down your score a lot.

Or perhaps she had little credit history. I could see a scenario where most of her stuff is financed through an LLC vs her personal credit. If your business is solely "being popular", almost everything is a business expense :)

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#18
If I were the real hacker, I would prove it by leaking information that wasn't already public.

If I were someone pretending to be the real hacker, I would show a screenshot of SSNs that I could find with Google (e.g. Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, and Bill Gates).

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#19

This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up. Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.

This issue has existed before the hack. None of these companies give a shit about security. Maybe this will change things.

They won't care until they have to personally pay out of pocket. Many of us probably will, but they won't.
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