{"id":26,"date":"2007-10-01T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/customer-of-peoplefinders-in-poland-exposes-background-check\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:19:26","slug":"customer-of-peoplefinders-in-poland-exposes-background-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/customer-of-peoplefinders-in-poland-exposes-background-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer of PeopleFinders in Poland Exposes Background Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The information in this breach was never exposed on any website owned or operated by PeopleFinders, but on a Polish website unrelated to the company.  The information appeared to be a PeopleFinders.com report, and was placed online independently by a third party.<\/p>\n<p>On August 21st, 2007 the Liberty Coalition discovered a copy of a &#8220;Comprehensive Background Check with Nationwide Criminal&#8221; purported to be authored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplefinders.com\">PeopleFinders.com<\/a>.  The subject of the report (Report Number:1564209) was &#8220;Christina M Snyder,&#8221; and was apparently issued on 11\/12\/2006 2:46:02 PM.  It purports to be ordered by Christina, but was apparently paid for by &#8220;Lukasz Kozacki&#8221; of &#8220;Tarnowskie Gory, Poland.&#8221;  The price of the report appeared to be $600, and the Money Transfer Control Number was 9057968254.  A copy of this report was discovered on a website registered to &#8220;Tuszy ski Micha&#8221; in &#8220;Tarnowskie G ry, Poland.&#8221;  The Whois Registry says the contact phone number is &#8220;+48.322853753,&#8221; and the e-mail address is &#8220;tuszyn@op.pl.&#8221;  The website has since been shut down, and Google has cleared its caches.<\/p>\n<p>The report contained Christina&#8217;s Address, Phone Number, Social Security Number, Mother&#8217;s Maiden Name, Drivers License Number, Date of Birth, Routing Number, Bank Account Number, Maiden Name, Previous Addresses, Friends, Neighbors and Relatives&#8217; Names and Contact Information, as well as Property Value.  It also purported to contain contact information for people identified as Christina&#8217;s possible friends, associates, relatives, or neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>This breach was reported to the FBI. It also provides insight into what conditions you may appear on someone else&#8217;s background report.<\/p>\n<p>Confirm whether you were affected by this breach, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssnbreach.org\/\">www.ssnbreach.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssnbreach.org\/news.php#pf\"><em>SSNBreach.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information in this breach was never exposed on any website owned or operated by PeopleFinders, but on a Polish website unrelated to the company. The information appeared to be a PeopleFinders.com report, and was placed online independently by a third party. On August 21st, 2007 the Liberty Coalition discovered a copy of a &#8220;Comprehensive [&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\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}