Recently, the American tracing website truepeoplesearch became popular on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
The website collects personal names, telephone numbers, addresses and other information from public information and social networking sites, and provides them to the public after reorganization.
The purpose of the website is: "try your best to provide the most convenient way to help you find your lost friends and family."
As long as you enter your name, you can find out your age, current residence and former residence, telephone number, email address, names of relatives, and even criminal records.
Take Zhou Libo as an example.
Search Wang again, and his real estate information has also been published: previously, the media reported that Wang bought a house in Pasadena, but according to the information on this website, he still has one in San Marino. ......
Although a lot of information on this website has been made public, the amount of information it provides is quite large and complete, and it is so easy to query, which also makes many people panic and worry that their information will be used by criminals for fraud or other criminal acts.
Moreover, most people have no idea that their information is integrated and searched in this way, and naturally they do not have any prevention and control capabilities.
Fortunately, the website also provides the option to delete your own records.
If you want to know your information clearly, you can drop it down to the bottom of the website, click the terms, select "Cancel", and then click OK, and the record will be deleted within a few hours.
It is unclear how long this information has been "public" and how many people have downloaded this personal information.
This incident once again issued a warning: we have lost control of personal privacy, and personal information disclosure incidents are common.
Previously, there have been many incidents of personal information disclosure:
2065438+August 2005, Ashley Madison, the world's largest extramarital affairs website, was hacked. The hacker team "Impact Team" published nearly 10G user data stolen from the website. In this incident, TV star, politician Josh Dagger, famous British Islamic missionary hamzah Zorzi and other celebrities were shot in the knee, and the cloud of destruction floated to the whole society.
After the British broadband operator TalkTalk was repeatedly attacked, the private data of more than 4 million users were finally leaked. This includes the user's name, address, date of birth, phone number, e-mail, TalkTalk account information, and even credit card or bank account details. Caused a "terrible loss"
Anthem lost 80 million pieces of personal information in the biggest medical institution leak in American history. Like TalkTalk, Anthem, the second largest medical insurance company in the United States, also suffered losses. Anthem was attacked by a "targeted external attack", and the lost data included the user's name, date of birth, customer ID, social security code, address, telephone number, email address, etc.
The network not only provides convenience for us, but also increasingly threatens the security of personal privacy. Today, with the development of information collection and snooping technology, everyone will have the possibility that their privacy will be leaked.
Remind everyone again: when surfing the Internet, you must pay attention to the confidentiality of personal information, and don't disclose too much information on the website, causing unnecessary trouble.