RavenTKR
join:2003-05-12
Cleveland, OH | reply to DVOOR8
Re: Slow
This scenario sounds a little bit far fetched, but who knows? |
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join:2002-10-16
New Milford, CT
| The issue here is that a credit clearing house (one that warehouses your personal data and the date of millions of American citizens who use credit) had their database compromised by unscrupulous customers who bought access to that data by posing as legitimate creditors/merchant account holders.
This was not reported as a zombie/phishing attack. It was social engineering that occured, according to the reports I've read.
What will have to happen is either stricter control over whom the clearing houses like ChoicePoint Data accept as clients, or the removal of the ability of companies like that to maintain databases of personal information. Since the latter is unlikely, I'd expect that this could happen again.
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Kip patterson
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join:2000-10-23
Columbus, OH | Choicepoint is NOT a credit card clearing house. There is no reason to think that the Choicepoint scam has any thing to do with Pluto. |
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fireflier
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo | Perhaps not, but Choicepoint is a proof of concept that this kind of information can be obtained by unauthorized persons.
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