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Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:21:55 -0500
On 2/23/06, Mike Johnson <mike () enoch org> wrote:
Tom Van Vleck wrote:Yup, I am a former McAfee employee, got the letter on Monday. They offer the customary two years of free Equifax Credit Watch, all I have to do is give a lot of personal info to Equifax. Do I trust Equifax?They already know everything about you. In fact, they already know you sent this email.
I know that was a joke, but it reminds me of a story <FunSec Groans> It took equifax over two years to report that I had bought a house here in Atlanta (where they are based), but when I tried to contact Them about it via phone, They said I could only communicate with Them via mail from my address on file: The World Cafe in Venice, CA. Strange thing is, I never lived at the world cafe, only drank there a lot in 1997 (buy two beers, get free internet access, which was pretty cool in 1997). Moral of the story: Equifax only finds out about stuff months to years after it actually happens. Also, someone has to report it to them for them to have it in your DB entry. If no one tells them, they just dont know about it. Data mining or collaboration with the Feds may change this, but that hasnt happened yet TMK, -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Fergie (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Tom Van Vleck (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Mike Johnson (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Dude VanWinkle (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Drsolly (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Mike Johnson (Feb 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Todd Towles (Feb 23)
- RE: Getting free yearly credit reports from Equifax, et. Al. Richard M. Smith (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Fergie (Feb 23)
- Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data Tom Van Vleck (Feb 23)