Classic British Flight Sim

I'm just reading in today's Times about the amount of personal information traded online for money. Names, Credit card details, addresses, bank account numbers, PINs etc. The identities of four million Brits are being offered for sale by auction on certain websites.

This is the article: The Times

What's new is that the Police Officer (Colin Holder) in charge of the Met's online fraud section has retired and set up his own online company. Using his knowledge he's gathered 120 million entries in his database that are being illegally offered online. Using his website you can do a free search to see if any information on you is being offered - making you vulnerable to ID theft. If some of your details have been offered online, he charges a £10 fee to tell you which info has been compromised.

Lucid Intelligence website

He's been completely open about the information and has submitted it to the Police and The Information Commissioner's Office. But it's still not clear whether he is able to legally hold this information under the Data Protection Act, even though by doing so he's offering a public service. He's working with the authorities to try and get a ruling. Meanwhile, if you're concerned about ID fraud, you might want to run a check before it's withdrawn.

Ian

Thank you Ian

On spec I tried to see it would work with US address's - as I do some Internet trade with the UK.

Please to say in 15 secs it returned a "good news" message

Leif

Brilliant link Ian many thanks.

About time something like this was made available to ordinary members of the public however, we are still very much at risk through plonkers who decide to take home personal details of clients, customers, or patients on laptops or memory sticks with some being uncrypted and lose the bl**dy things or worse leave them on a train, bus or taxi!! :brick: :@

Nigel.