ID Theft Service Tied to Payday Loan Sites
Summary: A site called Usearching.info sells Social Security numbers, dates of birth, mother's maiden names and driver's license data for roughly 75 million people in eight states, and it also carries more than 330,000 records tied to a network of payday loan sites. A Krebs source bought 80 of those loan records for about $20, each containing the applicant's SSN, bank account and routing number, employer and job tenure, and more than a dozen people contacted said they had applied for payday loans around the record dates.
Why it matters: The records were sold in bulk at 16 to 25 cents apiece, and the people in them had handed over their data to loan sites that redirected them to other lenders - one Virginia resident who did so later fielded threatening fake collection calls from people posing as police and state processors.
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