stolen ID search

.:pray that it doesn’t show up:.

stolen ID search site

from the site: “Is your social sercurity or credit card number safe? Search more than 2,345,708 compromised numbers.”

in a nutshell:

when i first saw the number of compromised numbers, i didn’t really think anything of it…considering that the US population is approximately 300 million, that would make approximately 0.7819026666666666etc.% people ‘compromised’. still…a couple million people is the population of a couple of good sized cities, and so i thought i might throw this out there considering how quick and easy it is to use. you just go to the site, throw in your credit card or social secrity # and it tells you whether or not it has found anything in their database.

you might say, ‘uhh…andrew…you’re an idiot. ever think that this might be a phishing scam? ever think that you may’ve just given your information to people who might use it against you?’ yeah, i thought about that…but this product was released by a company called ‘trusted ID’, which has been in the business for a long, long time. and they disclaim on the site that they don’t store any information you type in. and i did a little nosing around with whois and their name servers point to something legit. while this doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything either… i still feel alright throwing this out there. with the increase of stolen ID instances going through the roof, you should consider using as many tools as you can to make sure it doesn’t happen.