{"id":25,"date":"2007-09-28T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/jordanian-social-networking-site-187-identities-exposed\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T17:09:02","slug":"jordanian-social-networking-site-187-identities-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/jordanian-social-networking-site-187-identities-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian Social Networking Site: 187 Identities Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late August, 2007, the Liberty Coalition discovered a text file containing sensitive personal information for approximately 187 people, posted by a user on the Jordanian social networking site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeeran.com\">Jeeran.com<\/a>.  This file contained names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, Mothers&#8217; maiden Names, Drivers License Numbers, Dates of Birth, Credit Card information, ATM Pins, Bank Accounts, PayPal account information, and other sensitive data.  On October 1, 2007, Jeeran.com President &#038; Co-founder Omar F. Koudsi e-mailed SSNBreach.org to emphasize that they &#8220;quickly&#8230; co-operated in removing the data.&#8221;  Jeeran.com did in fact remove the information within 48 hours of notification. However, they have not confirmed how long the file was available on their recalcitrant user&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals on this list were most likely victims of a &#8220;phishing&#8221; scam, where a malicious individual sets up a website that looks exactly like a merchant&#8217;s website (like paypal), in order to lure the victim into revealing sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out whether you were affected by this breach, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssnbreach.org\/\">www.ssnbreach.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late August, 2007, the Liberty Coalition discovered a text file containing sensitive personal information for approximately 187 people, posted by a user on the Jordanian social networking site, Jeeran.com. This file contained names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, Mothers&#8217; maiden Names, Drivers License Numbers, Dates of Birth, Credit Card information, ATM Pins, Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}