The world's largest private information database: 40 million people
The British company Lucid Intelligence has compiled the world's largest private information database. It includes credit card numbers, PIN codes, bank account numbers, passwords, phone numbers and other information about 40 million people. Most people in the database are Americans. But there are citizens of other countries, including 4 million British. Apparently, there are citizens of Russia.
According to the journalist of The Times, who was given a look at this base , at least 250 thousand bank accounts in British banks were hacked. The journalist is surprised that the police are not taking any measures in this connection, because they know everything.
All information is collected by FBI specialists, police, anti-phishing companies at hacker forums, IRC channels and other places where such data can be purchased wholesale and inexpensively. For example, someone else’s credit card can be bought there for only 50 cents. The founder of Lucid Intelligence, Colin Holder, a former police officer, has been extracting this data bit by bit for four years, and now merged it into one information system, left police work and founded a private business. Perhaps Colin Holder even personally bought some information from hackers, because he himself says: the investment in this startup was 160 thousand pounds.
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Naturally, the newly formed company Lucid Intelligence is not going to break the law and cause harm to the unfortunate whose private data hit the base. The company will earn money simply from reference services. On their website you can check your name and surname. If information about you is in the database, then for money you can find out which private data can be considered compromised.
Hurry up to check, because the site may soon stop its work. There is a chance that Holder will go to jail. Now the authorities are deciding whether his business can be considered legal.
via The Times
According to the journalist of The Times, who was given a look at this base , at least 250 thousand bank accounts in British banks were hacked. The journalist is surprised that the police are not taking any measures in this connection, because they know everything.
All information is collected by FBI specialists, police, anti-phishing companies at hacker forums, IRC channels and other places where such data can be purchased wholesale and inexpensively. For example, someone else’s credit card can be bought there for only 50 cents. The founder of Lucid Intelligence, Colin Holder, a former police officer, has been extracting this data bit by bit for four years, and now merged it into one information system, left police work and founded a private business. Perhaps Colin Holder even personally bought some information from hackers, because he himself says: the investment in this startup was 160 thousand pounds.
')
Naturally, the newly formed company Lucid Intelligence is not going to break the law and cause harm to the unfortunate whose private data hit the base. The company will earn money simply from reference services. On their website you can check your name and surname. If information about you is in the database, then for money you can find out which private data can be considered compromised.
Hurry up to check, because the site may soon stop its work. There is a chance that Holder will go to jail. Now the authorities are deciding whether his business can be considered legal.
via The Times
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/65137/
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