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anyone experienced identity theft recently?
I just got a call from an insurance company that someone pretended to be me and opened a ticket at an insurance company in early March, then try to get reimbursement from the insurance company.
Anyone here on the LET experienced this?
I only gave my identity to some VPS companies i learned from LET. They are very good VPS companies by reputation. Maybe there are some break into their customer databases?
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Is this ColoCrossing Database Breach affecting only the ColorCrossing, or many other VPS providers with different names? My VPS providers are based in Germany. Will this ColoCrossing Database affect the VPS providers across EU?
Also, seems my ID info leaked out at least before March. Is this ColoCrossing Database leak happening much earlier?
Hope you are lucky not to have data leaked!
never do KYC! you will learn that the hard way (Someone will comment KYC is for safety blah blah blah)
sorry for you, good luck
I hope at least you haven't uploaded your ID to the ticket and used reputable verification service like iDenfy or something like that?
Unrealistic, in some cases it is required by law
Why tf u gave you some random ass LET provider your info??
Don't spread your private info everywhere!
you gave your identity only to vps company’s , but actually people give I’d to banks, medical clinics, money transfers company’s and anywhere
how can you make sure which places you ever gave your id or identity, have you search information about yourself at web ? By special apps, AI, bots, and paid services.
That is common thing in new century.
to find out where your information came from, have to dig it out from another side, like you the one who look for that guy info using all the tools around the web.
some vps companies, especially those in germany, ask for photo id. i gave them, because they have very good reputation here on let, their service is also top tier. i don't have doubt on these vps companies. i suspect that their customer photo ids storage servers have breach by hackers.
i should listen to your advice several years ago. in the future, i will only go for large companies, or small hosters allow paypal. never photo id, never.
by the way, what is kic in full phrase ?
for the latest one, i submitted through stripe, the hosting provider can look at it. sveral years ago, i think i uploaded my id through the hosting companies' links, possibly their own internal links. it is too long time, i don't remember now. feeling really bad. i lose much more than save on cheap vps.
Sounds horrible tbh, I mean it is hard or even impossible to make hosting provider accountable in this case at all
This is why I advocate for people not to freely hand their government ID out to companies - regardless of the legitimacy of why they want it.
I'll give you my credit card + phone number to verify, but draw the line of ID. You never know how they're storing the data and securing it.
Most of the time, there's likely no process for how this info is stored, encrypted (if at all) and securely disposed of. It's usually in someone's email inbox, stored as plaintext in a database or file storage.
My dental insurance sent me a letter saying all customers data got stolen a year and a half ago. All information, even social security number.
I've been watching my credit and stuff like a hawk, I don't know why nothing has happened yet... Should I still worry? I mean they would've done something by now? right?
this is true that let vps providers are not the only source. typically i very rarely give my photo id to other online providers, except us government, maybe my bank and my hospital. not sure about the latter ones. they have my credit information, easy for them to locate me in usa if they want. i don't remember that they asked for my photo id.
this morning i just asked credit freeze and asked equafax to provide me a credit monitor service, $20/m. this price is only for me, if for the whole family, goes up and up.
maybe they do in other countries. my case actually happened outside of usa.
a big hard lesson for me. will never trust anyone on this photo id or other personal information in the future.
If the call is from local insurance company, there is probability leak is from your country facilites, ex medical, another insurance company, cable & internet providers, you name it..
Its common companies that went downhill pass (sell) the data to others competitors for marketing.. Also in my country is common now we have facilities that do fast money lending to ppl in needs like usurer but legal registered companies, and that my friend is the biggest legal fraud and most of the stolen data its from these companies..
The only document i gave online is to ovh and i regret it still till this day (was too young).. other companies that asked me for documents here on let i just simple ask for refund and cross that on my list for future buys..
KYC = Know Your Customer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer