By now, everyone’s probably heard that a lot of famous people had their details exposed on the Exposed.su web site. By the time the site was taken offline, over 234,000 visitors had viewed personal information on Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, Vice-President Joe Biden, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Chief of Los Angeles Police Department Charlie Beck, Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher, Jay Z, Beyonce, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, former Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Hulk Hogan, Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Vice-President Al Gore. TMZ broke the story Monday. Since then, the media has been having a field day.
Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current and former addresses, and credit reports – it was all there, although credit reports were not included for everyone. At least some of the data appears to be accurate, according to the Associated Press.
But who did it and how? No one knows as yet, but everyone’s running around investigating, but it appears that the credit reports were obtained by individual(s) who had sufficient information to be able to impersonate the famous people and access their credit reports by authenticating as them. Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg News obtained statements from the major credit report brokers – Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian – about how credit reports from their databases wound up compromised.
Dissent,
Good day to you…but not for Mrs. Obama, Kimberly Noel Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and VP Joseph R Biden Jr, to name a few. I saw on CNN today a website http://www.Exposed.su had posted the sensitive information of the above named individuals and others such as Paris Hilton, Al Gore and Mel Gibson. I went to the Soviet Union (.SU) registered site (now offline) and was able to view the full names, Social Security Numbers, date of birth, current and former addresses and phone numbers for these individuals. Additionally, I was also able to view the credit reports for Mrs. Obama, Paris Hilton, Sarah Palin, and Attorney General Eric Holder (he’s using 89% of his available credit and also late on a couple payments). Paris also has a credit score of 788.
I didn’t see any connections between the exposed individuals except they are popular people. The credit reports shown were either from Transunion, Experian, or FreeCreditReport.com, which does not indicate a breach from anyone specific CRA company.
It is sad this happened, but hopefully this incident should “NOW” get some action from the White House in protecting sensitive information!!! The sensitive information of the Director of the FBI was also posted…opps!
Have a great week!!!
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